linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: uapi: ufs: Fix SPDX license identifier

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Date:   Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:20:15 -0700
From:   James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Avri Altman <avri.altman@....com>
Cc:     linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Pedro Sousa <pedrom.sousa@...opsys.com>,
        Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@...sung.com>,
        Avi Shchislowski <avi.shchislowski@....com>,
        Alex Lemberg <alex.lemberg@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: uapi: ufs: Fix SPDX license identifier

On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 20:14 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> Avri,
> 
> > added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is the officially
> > assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall exception.
> > This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non
> > GPL code, without confusing license compliance tools.
> 
> I'd like Arnd to ack the license change since he has made changes
> (however mechanical) to the file.

Just to note: this isn't technically a licence change at all.  The
entire kernel is covered by the system call exception and this file is
thus also covered.  It's really a simple tag change to allow tools
which parse uapi header files to recognise from the SPDX tags that this
is a kernel header to which the Linux-syscall-note applies.

James