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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1907251039410.1791@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 10:40:06 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-spdx@...r.kernel.org,
Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] treewide: add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to SPDX
tag of uapi headers
On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> UAPI headers licensed under GPL are supposed to have exception
> "WITH Linux-syscall-note" so that they can be included into non-GPL
> user space application code.
>
> The exception note is missing in some UAPI headers.
>
> Some of them slipped in by the treewide conversion commit b24413180f56
> ("License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with
> no license"). Just run:
>
> $ git show --oneline b24413180f56 -- arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/
>
> I believe they are not intentional, and should be fixed too.
>
> This patch was generated by the following script:
>
> git grep -l --not -e Linux-syscall-note --and -e SPDX-License-Identifier \
> -- :arch/*/include/uapi/asm/*.h :include/uapi/ :^*/Kbuild |
> while read file
> do
> sed -i -e '/[[:space:]]OR[[:space:]]/s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/(\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note)/g' \
> -e '/[[:space:]]or[[:space:]]/s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/(\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note)/g' \
> -e '/[[:space:]]OR[[:space:]]/!{/[[:space:]]or[[:space:]]/!s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note/g}' $file
> done
>
> After this patch is applied, there are 5 UAPI headers that do not contain
> "WITH Linux-syscall-note". They are kept untouched since this exception
> applies only to GPL variants.
>
> $ git grep --not -e Linux-syscall-note --and -e SPDX-License-Identifier \
> -- :arch/*/include/uapi/asm/*.h :include/uapi/ :^*/Kbuild
> include/uapi/drm/panfrost_drm.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
> include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
> include/uapi/linux/qemu_fw_cfg.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause */
> include/uapi/linux/vbox_err.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
> include/uapi/linux/virtio_iommu.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause */
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Thanks for cleaning this up!
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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