16 Sep, 2020
2 commits
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The new files contributed to zlib have Zlib SPDX license identifier. Since
there was no Zlib license text in LICENSES, scripts/spdxcheck.py
reported the following errors:
lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: Zlib
lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc.h: 1:28 Invalid License ID: Zlib
lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc_deflate.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: Zlib
lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc_inflate.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: Zlib
lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc_util.h: 1:28 Invalid License ID: ZlibThe patch adds Zlib SPDX license to LICENSES/deprecated, thus
resolving the issues reported by spdxcheck.Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman -
There are some files under Documentation which uses
deprecated versions of GNU Free Documentation License, on
both versions 1.1 and 1.2.On all cases, the license is with no Invariant Sections,
Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts.Add the text file for them, as we'll start using SPDX
for those.Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
03 May, 2019
2 commits
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Make it clear in the directory name that these are not intended for new
code.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Just like the CDDL the Apache license and the MPL must only be used as
a choice in additional to an GPL2 compatible license. Copy over the
boilerplate from the CDDL file to the other two after fixing it up to
make it clear the licenses need to be GPL2 compatible, not just the
more generic GPL compatible. For example the Apache 2 license is GPL3
compatible, but that doesn't matter for the kernel.Also move these licenses to a separate directory and document the rules
in license-rules.rst.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
17 Jan, 2019
1 commit
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A recent commit added SPDX identifiers to the SuperH low level library code
which originates from GCC. This code is licensed under the GPL 2.0 or later
with the GCC runtime library exception.Unfortunately the authors did not bother to add the exception text to the
LICENSES directory so spdxcheck fails with:arch/sh/lib/ashiftrt.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0
arch/sh/lib/ashlsi3.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0
arch/sh/lib/ashrsi3.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0
arch/sh/lib/lshrsi3.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0
arch/sh/lib/movmem.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0
arch/sh/lib/udiv_qrnnd.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0
arch/sh/lib/udivsi3.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0
arch/sh/lib/udivsi3_i4i-Os.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0
arch/sh/lib/udivsi3_i4i.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0Add the exception text along with the required tags which allow automated
checking.Fixes: 4494ce4fb4ff ("sh: lib: convert to SPDX identifiers")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Kuninori Morimoto
Cc: Simon Horman
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Cc: Rich Felker
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Kate Stewart
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
25 Oct, 2018
1 commit
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome
readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES
updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the
unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document
from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo
fixes and corrections"* tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits)
docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst
docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list
kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination
doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst
docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents
doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes
Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example
dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature
docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits
LICENSES: Add ISC license text
LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used
docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals
docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug
docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight
yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation
docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api
docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm
doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs
docs: fix some broken documentation references
iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation
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18 Oct, 2018
1 commit
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Using non-GPL licenses for our documentation is rather problematic,
as it can directly include other files, which generally are GPLv2
licensed and thus not compatible.Remove this license now that the only user (idr.rst) is gone to avoid
people semi-accidentally using it again.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
13 Oct, 2018
2 commits
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Add the full text of the ISC license to the kernel tree. It was copied
directly from:https://spdx.org/licenses/ISC.html
With the mention of "ISC" in the warranty disclaimer replaced with
"THE AUTHOR" as done in the ISC license headers used in the ath10k and
brcmfmac wifi drivers.Cc: Kalle Valo
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
The only reason we have the CDDL-1.0 license text around is for some
dual-licensed files from virtualbox. New code should not use this license.Add a note about this and change the example tag to be dual-licensed.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
28 Apr, 2018
6 commits
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The infiniband code uses a variant of the OpenIB license. This license is
BSD-2-Clause with the MIT disclaimer. The linux kernel uses this license
extensively throughout the driver subsystem since 2005. Note that the
OpenIB.org license is a true match to BSD-2-Clause.The license text was copied from:
https://spdx.org/licenses/Linux-OpenIB.html#licenseText
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Add the full text of the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license to the kernel tree. It was
copied directly from:https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0.html#licenseText
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Add the full text of the CDDL-1.0 to the kernel tree. It was copied directly
from:https://spdx.org/licenses/CDDL-1.0.html#licenseText
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Add the full text of the Apache License version 2 to the kernel tree. It
was copied directly from:https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html#licenseText
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Add the full text of the X11 to the kernel tree. It was copied directly
from:https://spdx.org/licenses/X11.html#licenseText
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Quite some files have been flagged with the new GPL-2.0-only and
GPL-2.0-or-later identifiers which replace the original GPL-2.0 and
GPL-2.0+ identifiers in the SPDX license identifier specification, but the
identifiers are not mentioned as valid in the GPL-2.0 license file.Add them to the license file and to the Linux-syscall-note exception to
make everything consistent again.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Cc: Hans Verkuil
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
07 Jan, 2018
10 commits
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Add the full text of the Mozilla Public License 1.1 to the kernel tree. It was
copied directly from:https://spdx.org/licenses/MPL-1.1.html#licenseText
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Add the full text of the GPL 1.0 license to the kernel tree. It was
copied directly from:https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-1.0.html#licenseText
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Copied from the Linux kernel COPYING file.
Add the required tags for reference and tooling.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Add the full text of the MIT license to the kernel tree. It was copied
directly from:https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html#licenseText
Add the required tags for reference and tooling.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Add the full text of the BSD 3-clause "Clear" License to the
kernel tree. It was copied directly from:https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause-Clear.html
Add the required tags for reference and tooling.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Add the full text of the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License to the
kernel tree. It was copied directly from:https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause.html#licenseText
Add the required tags for reference and tooling.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Add the full text of the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license to the kernel
tree. It was copied directly from:https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause.html#licenseText
Add the required tags for reference and tooling.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Add the full text of the LGPL 2.1 license to the kernel tree. It was
copied directly from:https://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-2.1.html#licenseText
Add the required tags for reference and tooling.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Add the full text of the LGPL 2.0 license to the kernel tree. It was
copied directly from:https://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-2.0.html#licenseText
Add the required tags for reference and tooling.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Add the full text of the GPL 2.0 license to the LICENSES directory. It was
copied directly from the COPYING file in the kernel source tree as it
differs from the public available version of the license in various places
including the FSF.Philippe did some research on the GPL2.0 history:
There is NO trustworthy version of an official GPL 2.0 text: the FSF
official texts are all fubar (if only in small and subtle ways). The FSF
texts should be authoritative, but then which one? They published more
GPL 2.0 versions than most. So we would be hard pressed to blame SPDX or
the OSI for having their own minor variant.Then in digging further, I found the ONE true original GPL with a file
time stamp on June 2 1991, 01:50 (AM?, PM? unknown time zone?) ! in an
old GCC archive.For the posterity and everyone's enjoyment I have built a git history
of GPL 2.0 Mark1 to Mark6See https://github.com/pombredanne/gpl-history/commits/master/COPYING
I also added a shorter history of the Linux COPYING text. The first
version in Linus's git tree is based on the very fine and well tuned GPL
2 Mark4, the first fully Y2K compliant version of the GPL 2, as you can
see from the diffs with the former Mark3: that was dangerously stuck in
the last century.The current version in is based on a rare GPL 2.0 Mark5.1 aka "Franklin
St", that I do not have in my history yet and spells "Franklin St."
rather than "Franklin Street." Therefore there is likely another GPL 2.0
version between Mark4 and Mark5 that I have yet to find and may not have
been caught by the archive.org spiders. Here help and patches welcomed:
this is likely an important missing link.Further information about this archaelogical research;
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOFm3uEzRMf261+O-Nm+9HDoEn9RbFjH=5J9i1C2GgMUg2G4LA@mail.gmail.com
Add the required tags for reference and tooling.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Jonas Oberg
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet