diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index ac59b67f131e..7f6f93c3df9c 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
  * Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
  * Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Novell Inc.
  *
- * This file is released under the GPLv2.
- *
  * Please read Documentation/kobject.txt before using the kobject
  * interface, ESPECIALLY the parts about reference counts and object
  * destructors.
diff --git a/include/linux/kobject_ns.h b/include/linux/kobject_ns.h
index 7dd22132cc13..069aa2ebef90 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject_ns.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject_ns.h
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@
  *
  * Split from kobject.h by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
  *
- * This file is released under the GPLv2.
- *
  * Please read Documentation/kobject.txt before using the kobject
  * interface, ESPECIALLY the parts about reference counts and object
  * destructors.
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 450e771d0ac7..fad12300d264 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@
  * Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
  * Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Novell Inc.
  *
- * This file is released under the GPLv2.
- *
- *
  * Please see the file Documentation/kobject.txt for critical information
  * about using the kobject interface.
  */
diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index bbedaf359a1e..cc7e2c46273b 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
  * Copyright (C) 2004 Novell, Inc.  All rights reserved.
  * Copyright (C) 2004 IBM, Inc. All rights reserved.
  *
- * Licensed under the GNU GPL v2.
- *
  * Authors:
  *	Robert Love		<rml@novell.com>
  *	Kay Sievers		<kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
diff --git a/samples/kobject/kobject-example.c b/samples/kobject/kobject-example.c
index 6cc8bb36a4e8..9e383fdbaa00 100644
--- a/samples/kobject/kobject-example.c
+++ b/samples/kobject/kobject-example.c
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
  * Copyright (C) 2007 Novell Inc.
- *
- * Released under the GPL version 2 only.
- *
  */
 #include <linux/kobject.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
diff --git a/samples/kobject/kset-example.c b/samples/kobject/kset-example.c
index 58543eca7f16..401328fd687d 100644
--- a/samples/kobject/kset-example.c
+++ b/samples/kobject/kset-example.c
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
  * Copyright (C) 2007 Novell Inc.
- *
- * Released under the GPL version 2 only.
- *
  */
 #include <linux/kobject.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>