linux-kernel - [PATCH] kernel: modules: Add SPDX license identifier to kmod.c

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Message-ID: <20260116000431.643070-1-tim.bird@sony.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:04:31 -0700
From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@...y.com>
To: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	mcgrof@...nel.org,
	petr.pavlu@...e.com,
	da.gomez@...nel.org
Cc: linux-spdx@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-modules@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@...y.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kernel: modules: Add SPDX license identifier to kmod.c

Add a GPL-2.0 license identifier line for this file.

kmod.c was originally introduced in the kernel in February
of 1998 by Linus Torvalds - who was familiar with kernel
licensing at the time this was introduced.

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@...y.com>
---
 kernel/module/kmod.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/module/kmod.c b/kernel/module/kmod.c
index 25f253812512..a25dccdf7aa7 100644
--- a/kernel/module/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/module/kmod.c
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 /*
  * kmod - the kernel module loader
  *
-- 
2.43.0