On Tuesday 12 January 2016 22:32:41 Antonio Quartulli wrote:
A whitespace has been accidentally added while updating the copyright years in the file headers. Remove it.
Fixes: ee0e93f52a34 ("batman-adv: update copyright years for 2016") Cc: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli a@unstable.cc
Nacked-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org
This was on purpose to follow the the "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" section of the GPL2 [1]. The example given there is following:
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
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.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
This way of separating the year and the copyright holder is also used in other parts of the kernel and other parts of the batman-adv related source code (e.g. batctl and alfred).
Kind regards, Sven