linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] export,module: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to headers with no license

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Date:   Fri, 18 Oct 2019 03:15:10 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-spdx@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] export,module: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to
 headers with no license

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 01:50:53PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Commit b24413180f56 ("License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license
> identifier to files with no license") took care of a lot of files
> without any license information.
> 
> These headers were not processed by the tool perhaps because they
> contain "GPL" in the code.
> 
> I do not see any license boilerplate in them, so they fall back to
> GPL version 2 only, which is the project default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>

Ah, nice catch!

I'll queue this up to my spdx tree if no one objects.

thanks,

greg k-h