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From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
To: joe@perches.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Only flag FSF address, not gnu.org URL
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:16:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140106231534.23578.11475.stgit@ahduyck-cp2.jf.intel.com> (raw)

This change restricts the check for the for the FSF address in the GPL
copyright statement so that it only flags the address, not the references to
the gnu.org/licenses URL which appear in numerous drivers.

So for example this statement will still return an error:
  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.

However, this statement will not return an error after this patch:
  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 9c98100..ba3c9c3 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1963,8 +1963,7 @@ sub process {
 		}
 
 # Check for FSF mailing addresses.
-		if ($rawline =~ /You should have received a copy/ ||
-		    $rawline =~ /write to the Free Software/ ||
+		if ($rawline =~ /write to the Free Software/ ||
 		    $rawline =~ /59 Temple Place/ ||
 		    $rawline =~ /51 Franklin Street/) {
 			my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n";


             reply	other threads:[~2014-01-06 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-06 23:16 Alexander Duyck [this message]
2014-01-06 23:27 ` Greg KH
2014-01-06 23:52   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-06 23:57     ` Alexander Duyck
2014-01-06 23:57 ` Joe Perches

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