[lustre-devel] [PATCH 2/5] staging/lustre: Replace sun.com GPLv2 URL with gnu.org one

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Jun 15 19:28:34 PDT 2016


On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 03:04:33PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> On 06/15/2016 05:15 AM, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> 
> > On Jun 14, 2016, at 11:11 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> 
> >> And "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" is preferred
> > 
> > Is it? I don't mind it either way, but since we do "GPLv2 only",
> > seemed to make sense to only link to that?
> 
> Shorter and less prone to future modification.
> GPLv3 points exactly to that url:
> "You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>."

That whole paragraph can just be dropped, but really, why are we arguing
about this mess?  It's up to the copyright holder of the file to put
what they want here.


greg k-h


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