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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-11-01 17:09:13 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-11-02 13:20:11 +0300
commite2be04c7f9958dde770eeb8b30e829ca969b37bb (patch)
treedca626ac383d6906ed9edc06878456a8e86a59a3 /tools/arch/mips
parent6f52b16c5b29b89d92c0e7236f4655dc8491ad70 (diff)
downloadlinux-e2be04c7f9958dde770eeb8b30e829ca969b37bb.tar.xz
License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license
Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the license under which the file is supposed to be. This makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license. Update these files with an SPDX license identifier. The identifier was chosen based on the license information in the file. GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall exception: NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL code, without confusing license compliance tools. Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier. The format is: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE) SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. The update does not remove existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will happen in a separate step. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the methodology of how this patch was researched. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/arch/mips')
-rw-r--r--tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h1
-rw-r--r--tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h1
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h b/tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h
index 3e4c10a8e787..7268380d8d28 100644
--- a/tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h
+++ b/tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
#ifndef __ASM_MIPS_BITSPERLONG_H
#define __ASM_MIPS_BITSPERLONG_H
diff --git a/tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
index 6985eb59b085..d2714cc1cd93 100644
--- a/tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
+++ b/tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
/*
* 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