From 109d8cb2002dcb0fff04ff1afe8f1cec66bbdad9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Duyck Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:54:50 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: only flag FSF address, not gnu.org URL 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 appears to be used in numerous drivers. The idea is to still allow some reference to an external copy of the GPL in the event that files are copied out of the kernel tree without the COPYING file. 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 . Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Cc: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed