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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/17] tty: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 10:14:15AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Again, I strongly feel that removing MODULE_LICENSE() lines from files
> that just don't happen to be built as a module is not ok as no other
> MODULE_*() macro has this arbitrary restriction.

Yes.  And it should probably have a use in the kernel by checking that
nothing license-incompatible ever gets linked into mvlinux.
At least until we can parse the SPDX tags directly and make use of that
instead.