linux-kernel - [PATCH] lib: update the licence of the ASN.1 encoder and decoder

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Message-ID: <b419422e5e8f280e698c62461d04ccf6c8ba060f.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:24:40 -0400
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To: keyrings@...r.kernel.org
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, AndrewMorton
	 <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] lib: update the licence of the ASN.1 encoder and decoder

The open source project leancrypto (github.com/smuellerDD/leancrypto)
has asked to use the ASN.1 encoder/decoder files from the kernel.
Since leancrypto is licensed under BSD-3-Clause the fairest thing to do
for everyone is add BSD-3-Clause as an OR to the SPDX tag so every
project could import them under the same terms.

The copyright holders of both files have agreed to this change.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
---
 lib/asn1_decoder.c | 2 +-
 lib/asn1_encoder.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/asn1_decoder.c b/lib/asn1_decoder.c
index 5738ae286b41..1be81a80aed7 100644
--- a/lib/asn1_decoder.c
+++ b/lib/asn1_decoder.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-3-Clause
 /* Decoder for ASN.1 BER/DER/CER encoded bytestream
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
diff --git a/lib/asn1_encoder.c b/lib/asn1_encoder.c
index 92f35aae13b1..e1285208478d 100644
--- a/lib/asn1_encoder.c
+++ b/lib/asn1_encoder.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-3-Clause
 /*
  * Simple encoder primitives for ASN.1 BER/DER/CER
  *
-- 
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