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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-11-01 15:08:43 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +0100 |
| commit | 6f52b16c5b29b89d92c0e7236f4655dc8491ad70 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e46cbb29f4b4455c72d49626817ddb0791dee6e /include/uapi/video | |
| parent | License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license (diff) | |
| download | linux-6f52b16c5b29b89d92c0e7236f4655dc8491ad70.tar.xz linux-6f52b16c5b29b89d92c0e7236f4655dc8491ad70.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/video')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/video/edid.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/video/uvesafb.h | 1 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/video/edid.h b/include/uapi/video/edid.h index 8c0f032014c9..c6030dc10d6b 100644 --- a/include/uapi/video/edid.h +++ b/include/uapi/video/edid.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */ #ifndef _UAPI__linux_video_edid_h__ #define _UAPI__linux_video_edid_h__ diff --git a/include/uapi/video/uvesafb.h b/include/uapi/video/uvesafb.h index cee063d723ad..a0d5c9213e92 100644 --- a/include/uapi/video/uvesafb.h +++ b/include/uapi/video/uvesafb.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */ #ifndef _UAPI_UVESAFB_H #define _UAPI_UVESAFB_H |