linux-kernel - [PATCH] lib/crc32: add SPDX license identifier

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Message-ID: <20250514052409.194822-1-ebiggers@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 22:24:09 -0700
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
	linux-spdx@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH] lib/crc32: add SPDX license identifier

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

lib/crc32.c and include/linux/crc32.h got missed by the bulk SPDX
conversion because of the nonstandard explanation of the license.
However, crc32.c clearly states that it's licensed under the GNU General
Public License, Version 2.  And the comment in crc32.h clearly indicates
that it's meant to have the same license as crc32.c.  Therefore, apply
SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only to both files.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
---
 include/linux/crc32.h | 5 +----
 lib/crc32.c           | 4 +---
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/crc32.h b/include/linux/crc32.h
index 69c2e8bb37829..569dc13f139fc 100644
--- a/include/linux/crc32.h
+++ b/include/linux/crc32.h
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
-/*
- * crc32.h
- * See linux/lib/crc32.c for license and changes
- */
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
 #ifndef _LINUX_CRC32_H
 #define _LINUX_CRC32_H
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/bitrev.h>
diff --git a/lib/crc32.c b/lib/crc32.c
index fddd424ff2245..e690026f44f7a 100644
--- a/lib/crc32.c
+++ b/lib/crc32.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 /*
  * Aug 8, 2011 Bob Pearson with help from Joakim Tjernlund and George Spelvin
  * cleaned up code to current version of sparse and added the slicing-by-8
  * algorithm to the closely similar existing slicing-by-4 algorithm.
  *
@@ -17,13 +18,10 @@
  * seed as an argument, and doesn't xor at the end.  Then individual
  * users can do whatever they need.
  *   drivers/net/smc9194.c uses seed ~0, doesn't xor with ~0.
  *   fs/jffs2 uses seed 0, doesn't xor with ~0.
  *   fs/partitions/efi.c uses seed ~0, xor's with ~0.
- *
- * This source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License,
- * Version 2.  See the file COPYING for more details.
  */
 
 /* see: Documentation/staging/crc32.rst for a description of algorithms */
 
 #include <linux/crc32.h>

base-commit: 3937f6db6e932c560a0f9ee2cd2a4fdcc314dadf
-- 
2.49.0