Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 11/07/2025 07.52, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 07:35:09AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>>
>> The FSF does not reside in the Franklin street anymore. Let's update
>> the address with the link to their website, as suggested in the latest
>> revision of the GPL-2.0 license.
>> (See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt for example)
>>
>> Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   v2: Resend with CC: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org as suggested here:
>>       https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/e5de8010-5663-47f4-a2f0-87fd88230925@csgroup.eu
>>       
>>   arch/powerpc/boot/crtsavres.S            | 5 ++---
>>   arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/eeh.h      | 5 ++---
>>   arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h      | 5 ++---
>>   arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 5 ++---
>>   arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ps3fb.h    | 3 +--
>>   arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.S             | 5 ++---
>>   arch/powerpc/xmon/ppc.h                  | 5 +++--
>>   7 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/crtsavres.S b/arch/powerpc/boot/crtsavres.S
>> index 085fb2b9a8b89..a710a49a5dbca 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/crtsavres.S
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/crtsavres.S
>> @@ -26,9 +26,8 @@
>>    * General Public License for more details.
>>    *
>>    * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>> - * along with this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
>> - * the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
>> - * Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
>> + * along with this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
>> + * <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>>    *
>>    *    As a special exception, if you link this library with files
>>    *    compiled with GCC to produce an executable, this does not cause
> 
> Please just drop all the "boilerplate" license text from these files,
> and use the proper SPDX line at the top of them instead.  That is the
> overall goal for all kernel files.

Ok, I can do that for the header files ... not quite sure about the *.S 
files though since they contain some additional text about exceptions.
I'll drop those *.S files from the next version of the patch, I think these 
likely need to be discussed separately.

  Thomas