From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: parisc: License cleanup
Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 20:35:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YoqQe+sFaqpRwSDI@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <165322122487.3770149.883228125657116019.tglx@xen13>
On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 04:54:57PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Matthew!
>
> As you might know we are working on cleaning up the licensing mess in the
> kernel and convert it to SPDX license identifiers as the only source of
> license information.
>
> Archaeology found unspecific GPL license references, which have been
> authored by you.
>
> 1) licensed under the gnu gpl
>
> arch/parisc/kernel/syscall.S
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=9d1ec5d7a336d
>
> Can you please either send cleanup patches for the affected files or
> indicate which GPLv2 variant you had in mind and I run it through my
> cleanup machinery.
Hmm. I was working for Linuxcare at the time, under contract to HP.
I _suspect_ the copyright on that file was actually sold to HP.
And you're not going to find anyone who cares. At the time, I absolutely
would have meant (had it existed):
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
so it's fine with me if you add that line.
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2022-05-22 14:54 parisc: License cleanup Thomas Gleixner
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