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Re: [PATCH v1 1/9]powerpc/powernv: Data structure and macros definition

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On Wed, 2015-06-03 at 09:11 +1000, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> > + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> > + * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
> > + * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> > + */
> 
> I'm not certain about this, but I _think_ this is supposed to be version
> 2 only:
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/COPYING#n9

Urgh.

Yeah you're right, but we've been very sloppy about that over the years. And so
we have a lot of files that say .. or later.

And now that they say that we can't change them.

For a new file though we should just use the v2 only wording.

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published
  by the Free Software Foundation.

cheers


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Re: [PATCH v1 1/9]powerpc/powernv: Data structure and macros  definition Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net> - 2015-06-03 01:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v1 1/9]powerpc/powernv: Data structure and macros definition Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-06-04 09:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v1 1/9]powerpc/powernv: Data structure and macros  definition Mike & Meg <mikenmeg@ellerman.id.au> - 2015-06-04 12:50 +0200

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