linux-kernel - [Question] What is the license of scripts/basic/fixdep.c ?

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Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:58:22 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@....de>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [Question] What is the license of scripts/basic/fixdep.c ?

Hi.

The comment block of scripts/basic/fixdep.c says as follows:

 * Author       Kai Germaschewski
 * Copyright    2002 by Kai Germaschewski  <kai.germaschewski@....de>
 *
 * This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
 * of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.

It does not explicitly mention the version of GPL.

In this case, I think the corresponding SPDX tag
is GPL-1.0+ instead of GPL-2.0

Is this correct?

There could be another problem regarding of this.

Commit 9f7ef9854e80 copied scripts/basic/fixdep.c
to tools/build/fixdep.c, but it ripped off its license term.

Later, it was tagged as GPL-2.0 by b24413180

See 'git show  b24413180 -- tools/build/fixdep.c'

Maybe tools/build/fixdep.c should be corrected to GPL-1.0+ ?

-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada