Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2. Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.
Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier. The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception. SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
'COUNTER' and other same kind macros are too common to use, and easy to
get conflict with other modules.
At present, they are not used, so it is OK to simply remove them. And
the related warning (allmodconfig with score):
CC [M] drivers/md/raid1.o
In file included from drivers/md/raid1.c:42:0:
drivers/md/bitmap.h:93:0: warning: "COUNTER" redefined
#define COUNTER(x) (((bitmap_counter_t) x) & COUNTER_MAX)
^
In file included from ./arch/score/include/asm/ptrace.h:4:0,
from include/linux/sched.h:31,
from include/linux/blkdev.h:4,
from drivers/md/raid1.c:36:
./arch/score/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h:13:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
#define COUNTER 38
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Liqin Chen <liqin299@gmail.com>
Greg Kroah-Hartman