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

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Date:   Thu, 18 Jul 2019 06:46:35 +0000
From:   Avri Altman <Avri.Altman@....com>
To:     "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:     "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...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

Martin,

Are there any further clarifications required?
Thanks,
Avri

> 
> 
> James,
> 
> > 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.
> 
> OK.
> 
> --
> Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering