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 --- LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +SPDX-Exception-Identifier: Linux-syscall-note +SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/Linux-syscall-note.html +SPDX-Licenses: GPL-2.0, GPL-2.0+, GPL-1.0+, LGPL-2.0, LGPL-2.0+, LGPL-2.1, LGPL-2.1+ +Usage-Guide: + This exception is used together with one of the above SPDX-Licenses + to mark user space API (uapi) header files so they can be included + into non GPL compliant user space application code. + To use this exception add it with the keyword WITH to one of the + identifiers in the SPDX-Licenses tag: + SPDX-License-Identifier: WITH Linux-syscall-note +License-Text: + + 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". + Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software + Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux + kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it. + + Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel + is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not + v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. + + Linus Torvalds +