diff --git a/arch/s390/Makefile b/arch/s390/Makefile
index ffd95861f9ac157bbaab807f2eb637366f3dbc67..de54cfc6109d833017b29b6e115549aad2601d53 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Makefile
+++ b/arch/s390/Makefile
@@ -7,10 +7,6 @@
 # for "archclean" and "archdep" for cleaning up and making dependencies for
 # this architecture
 #
-# This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
-# License.  See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
-# for more details.
-#
 # Copyright (C) 1994 by Linus Torvalds
 #
 
diff --git a/arch/s390/boot/install.sh b/arch/s390/boot/install.sh
index 32a9367b9bf0710d00e2454b8710360f4fe80663..bed227f267ae52aab3a02ec5e8a0f01767896a10 100644
--- a/arch/s390/boot/install.sh
+++ b/arch/s390/boot/install.sh
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@
 #
 # arch/s390x/boot/install.sh
 #
-# This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
-# License.  See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
-# for more details.
-#
 # Copyright (C) 1995 by Linus Torvalds
 #
 # Adapted from code in arch/i386/boot/Makefile by H. Peter Anvin
diff --git a/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c b/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c
index 05d62cdb78b526cde455a8c1114bf1b446347ba5..43bbe63e2992c1ef525597bf4475b5f4c26d134b 100644
--- a/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c
+++ b/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
  *
  *    Copyright IBM Corp. 2006, 2008
  *    Author(s): Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
- *    License: GPL
  */
 
 #define KMSG_COMPONENT "hypfs"
diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/mmap.c b/arch/s390/mm/mmap.c
index 5ec9a8c2b768d84bd2c5f22f14d934f3e8132cc1..831bdcf407bbc1d2d76edc78e6a9f50aae1406cb 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/mmap.c
@@ -5,21 +5,6 @@
  * Copyright 2003-2004 Red Hat Inc., Durham, North Carolina.
  * All Rights Reserved.
  *
- * 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., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
- *
- *
  * Started by Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
  */