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From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Batch 5 - patch 08/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference
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On Thu, 23 May 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2019, Richard Fontana wrote:
> > > - *
> > > - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> > > - * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
> > > - * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
> 
> So if FSF insists on keeping this, then we need at least fix the
> address. It's outdated....
> 
> And looking at quite some of the other boilerplate, including stuff which
> originates from FSF/GNU, then there is not only outdated information, there
> is also actively misleading information like the wide spread link to:
> 
>    http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
>    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
> 
> which both bring you to the GPL v3 page.
> 
> This one:
> 
>    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
> 
> is not really making anything clear either.

And there is precedence, that the FSF did not holler for almost 6 years:

  https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/1a4596601fd395f3afb8f82f3f840c5e00bdd57a

commit 1a4596601fd395f3afb8f82f3f840c5e00bdd57a
Author: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date:   Mon Jul 8 09:37:19 2013 +0200

    Add GPL-2.0+ SPDX-License-Identifier to source files
    
    Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
    [trini: Fixup common/cmd_io.c]
    Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>

<snip .... >

--- a/arch/x86/lib/string.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/string.c
@@ -3,23 +3,7 @@
  * This file is part of the GNU C Library.
  * Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:    GPL-2.0+
  */

The full file header today is:

// SPDX-License-Identifier:    GPL-2.0+
/*
 * Copyright (C) 1991,1992,1993,1997,1998,2003, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 * This file is part of the GNU C Library.
 * Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
 */

There are more examples in u-boot doing the same on other files which
originate from a GNU/FSF source.

Thanks,

	tglx