[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Reformat copyright messages.

[Jesse Gross]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 01:49:06PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> Many of our kernel copyright messages make reference to code being
>> copied from the Linux kernel, which is a bit odd for code in the
>> kernel.  This changes them to use the standard GNU GPL boilerplate
>> instead.  It does not change the actual license, which continues to
>> be GPLv2.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
>
> The goal of that line was to remind developers (including me) that just
> because it was in the OVS tree it wasn't necessarily fair game to copy
> code out of datapath/ into other parts of the tree, since it might be
> licensed only as GPLv2 by a third party.
>
> Anyway, that's probably not too hard to figure out, so I'm OK with this.
>
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

Thanks, I pushed this.