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2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. 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>
2017-05-14scripts: Switch to more portable Perl shebangKamil Rytarowski1-1/+2
The default NetBSD package manager is pkgsrc and it installs Perl along other third party programs under custom and configurable prefix. The default prefix for binary prebuilt packages is /usr/pkg, and the Perl executable lands in /usr/pkg/bin/perl. This change switches "/usr/bin/perl" to "/usr/bin/env perl" as it's the most portable solution that should work for almost everybody. Perl's executable is detected automatically. This change switches -w option passed to the executable with more modern "use warnings;" approach. There is no functional change to the default behavior. While there, drop "require 5" from scripts/namespace.pl (Perl from 1994?). Signed-off-by: Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2016-05-24headers_check: don't warn about c++ guardsArnd Bergmann1-0/+4
A recent addition to the DRM tree for 4.7 added 'extern "C"' guards for c++ to all the DRM headers, and that now causes warnings in 'make headers_check': usr/include/drm/amdgpu_drm.h:38: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel usr/include/drm/drm.h:63: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel usr/include/drm/drm.h:699: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel usr/include/drm/drm_fourcc.h:30: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel usr/include/drm/drm_mode.h:33: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel usr/include/drm/drm_sarea.h:38: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel usr/include/drm/exynos_drm.h:21: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel usr/include/drm/i810_drm.h:7: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel This changes the headers_check.pl script to not warn about this. I'm listing the merge commit as introducing the problem, because there are several patches in this branch that each do this for one file. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Fixes: 7c10ddf87472 ("Merge branch 'drm-uapi-extern-c-fixes' of https://github.com/evelikov/linux into drm-next") Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2014-08-20kbuild: Make scripts executableMichal Marek1-0/+0
The Makefiles call the respective interpreter explicitly, but this makes it easier to use the scripts manually. Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2014-01-24headers_check: special case seqbuf_dump()Paul Bolle1-1/+5
"make headers_check" warns about soundcard.h for (at least) five years now: [...]/usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1054: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel We're apparently stuck with providing OSSlib-3.8 compatibility, so let's special case this declaration just to silence it. Notes: 0) Support for OSSlib post 3.8 was already removed in commit 43a990765a ("sound: Remove OSSlib stuff from linux/soundcard.h"). Five years have passed since that commit: do people still care about OSSlib-3.8? If not, quite a bit of code could be remove from soundcard.h (and probably ultrasound.h). 2) By the way, what is actually meant by: It is no longer possible to actually link against OSSlib with this header, but we still provide these macros for programs using them. Doesn't that mean compatibility to OSSlib isn't even useful? 3) Anyhow, a previous discussion soundcard.h, which led to that commit, starts at https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/20/349 . 4) And, yes, I sneaked in a whitespace fix. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-26headers_check: recursively search for linux/types.h inclusionBobby Powers1-1/+37
headers_check.pl currently emits some spurious warnings, especially for the drm headers, about using __[us]{8,16,32,64} types without including linux/types.h. Recursively search for types.h inclusion, avoiding circular references. Signed-off-by: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-12-14headers_check: Fix warning textakpm@linux-foundation.org1-2/+2
Fix the warning text too, per Randy. Cc: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-12-14headers_check: better search for functions in headersakpm@linux-foundation.org1-1/+1
Some headers don't bother with "extern" in function prototypes, which results in said prototypes being unnoticed and exported to userland. This patch slightly improves detection of such cases by checking for C type names as well in the beginning of a line. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-03-07headers_check: fix perl warningsStephen Hemminger1-5/+6
According to PBP; best way practice is to use local reference for file handle and three argument open. Also perl prototypes are a mistake. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-06-10kbuild/headers_check: refine extern checkAmerigo Wang1-5/+7
'extern' checking information is not clear, refine it. Plus, fix a comment. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> [sam: redid the extern error message] Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-06-10scripts/headers_check.pl: correct RE in header CONFIG leak checkRobert P. J. Day1-1/+1
Correct the regular expression in scripts/headers_check.pl to include '_' as a valid character in the class; otherwise, the check will report a "leaked" symbol of CONFIG_A_B_C as merely CONFIG_A. This patch will make no difference whatsoever in the current kernel tree as the call to the perl routine that does that check is currently commented out: &check_include(); &check_asm_types(); &check_sizetypes(); &check_prototypes(); # Dropped for now. Too much noise &check_config(); However, I noticed that problem when I was building the yum downloadable kernel source rpm for fedora 11 (beta), which *does* run that check, and that's where the problem became obvious. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-31kbuild: drop check for CONFIG_ in headers_checkSam Ravnborg1-1/+1
The check for references to CONFIG_ symbols in exported headers turned out to be too agressive with the current state of affairs. After the work of Jaswinder to clean up all relevant cases we are down to almost pure noise. So lets drop the check for now - we can always add it back later should our headers be ready for that. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-02kbuild: ignore a few files in headers_checkSam Ravnborg1-0/+6
The new check for asm/types.h and linux/types.h had a few false positives. o We cannot let linux/types.h include linux/types.h o The int-ll64.h and int-ll64.h define the types and are included by linux/types.h Handle this by hardcoding the filenames in the headers_check script. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02kbuild: add checks for include of linux/types in userspace headersSam Ravnborg1-3/+44
If we see __[us](8|16|32|64) then we must include <linux/types.h> If wee see include of <asm/types.h> then we recommend <linux/types.h> Original script from Mike but modified by me. Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02kbuild: check for leaked CONFIG_ symbols to userspaceSam Ravnborg1-1/+10
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02headers_check.pl: disallow extern'sMike Frysinger1-1/+11
Since prototypes with "extern" refer to kernel functions, they make no sense in userspace, so reject them automatically. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [sam: made it into a warning] Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-10-30Fix incompatibility with versions of Perl less than 5.6.0Jeremy Huntwork1-5/+5
Fix headers_install.pl and headers_check.pl to be compatible with versions of Perl less than 5.6.0. It has been tested with Perl 5.005_03 and 5.8.8. I realize this may not be an issue for most people, but there will still be some that hit it, I imagine. There are three basic issues: 1. Prior to 5.6.0 open() only used 2 arguments, and the versions of the scripts in 2.6.27.1 use 3. 2. 5.6.0 also introduced the ability to use uninitialized scalar variables as file handles, which the current scripts make use of. 3. Lastly, 5.6.0 also introduced the pragma 'use warnings'. We can use the -w switch and be backwards compatible. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@lightcubesolutions.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-07-26kbuild: optimize headers_* targetsSam Ravnborg1-0/+56
Move the core functionality of headers_install and headers_check to two small perl scripts. The makefile is adapted to use the perl scrip and changed to operate on all files in a directory. So if one file is changed then all files in the directory is processed. perl were chosen for the helper scripts because this is pure text processing which perl is good at and especially the headers_check.pl script are expected to see changes / new checks implmented. The speed is ~300% faster on this box. And the output generated to the screen is now down to two lines per directory (one for install, one for check) so it is easier to scroll back after a kernel build. The perl scripts has been brought to sanity by patient feedback from: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>