diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c
index 133be3c689af..cd12e6576b48 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c
@@ -5,13 +5,8 @@
  *  Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
  *  Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Inc.
  *
- *	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.
- *
  *  debugfs is for people to use instead of /proc or /sys.
  *  See Documentation/filesystems/ for more details.
- *
  */
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
index 7c107b3b9c93..63a998c3f252 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -5,13 +5,8 @@
  *  Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
  *  Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Inc.
  *
- *	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.
- *
  *  debugfs is for people to use instead of /proc or /sys.
  *  See ./Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst for more details.
- *
  */
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/internal.h b/fs/debugfs/internal.h
index b9567541b737..f0d73d86cc1a 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/debugfs/internal.h
@@ -3,11 +3,6 @@
  *  internal.h - declarations internal to debugfs
  *
  *  Copyright (C) 2016 Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
- *
- *	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.
- *
  */
 
 #ifndef _DEBUGFS_INTERNAL_H_
diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h
index 7beab3fd2f1a..f36ecc2a5712 100644
--- a/include/linux/debugfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
  *  Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
  *  Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Inc.
  *
- *	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.
- *
  *  debugfs is for people to use instead of /proc or /sys.
  *  See Documentation/filesystems/ for more details.
  */