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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:30:31 +0200

On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 09:09:08AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> 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 <[email-masked]>
> > > 
> > > 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 <[email-masked]>
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <[email-masked]>
> > > ---
> > >   v2: Resend with CC: [email-masked] as suggested here:
> > >       https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/[email-masked]
> > >   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.

That's a crazy exception, and one that should probably be talked about
with the FSF to determine exactly what the SPDX lines should be.

thanks,

greg k-h