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Greg Kroah-Hartman 6f52b16c5b License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 
Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2.  Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:

   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".

otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.

Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier.  The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception.  SPDX license identifiers are 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.  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>
2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
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alpha License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
arc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
arm License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
arm64 License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
blackfin License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
c6x License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
cris License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
frv License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
h8300 License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
hexagon License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
ia64 License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
m32r License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
m68k License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
metag License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
microblaze License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
mips License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
mn10300 License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
nios2 License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
openrisc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
parisc License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
powerpc License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
s390 License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
score License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
sh License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
sparc License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
tile License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
um License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
unicore32 License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
x86 License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
xtensa License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
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Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00