[PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc: Replace GPL 2.0+ README.legal boilerplate with SPDX

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Mon Sep 18 20:14:44 AEST 2023


Upstream Linux never had a "README.legal" file, but it was present
in early source releases of Linux/m68k.  It contained a simple copyright
notice and a link to a version of the "COPYING" file that predated the
addition of the "only valid GPL version is v2" clause.

Get rid of the references to non-existent files by replacing the
boilerplate with SPDX license identifiers.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>
---
v2:
  - s/existant/existent/.
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c | 5 +----
 arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c        | 5 +----
 arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.h        | 7 ++-----
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c
index 5d7a72b41ae71158..727ed4a145451356 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 /*
  *  PowerPC version
  *    Copyright (C) 1995-1996 Gary Thomas (gdt at linuxppc.org)
@@ -9,10 +10,6 @@
  *
  * Modified by Cort Dougan (cort at hq.fsmlabs.com)
  * and Paul Mackerras (paulus at samba.org).
- *
- * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General
- * Public License.  See the file README.legal in the main directory of
- * this archive for more details.
  */
 
 #include <linux/regset.h>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c
index 68a91e553e14cea2..aa17e62f37547a79 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 /*
  * Common signal handling code for both 32 and 64 bits
  *
  *    Copyright (c) 2007 Benjamin Herrenschmidt, IBM Corporation
  *    Extracted from signal_32.c and signal_64.c
- *
- * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General
- * Public License.  See the file README.legal in the main directory of
- * this archive for more details.
  */
 
 #include <linux/resume_user_mode.h>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.h b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.h
index a429c57ed4331805..58ecea1cdc27ae80 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.h
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
-/*
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+ *
  *    Copyright (c) 2007 Benjamin Herrenschmidt, IBM Corporation
  *    Extracted from signal_32.c and signal_64.c
- *
- * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General
- * Public License.  See the file README.legal in the main directory of
- * this archive for more details.
  */
 
 #ifndef _POWERPC_ARCH_SIGNAL_H
-- 
2.34.1



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