* Concern about arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c
@ 2021-05-07 8:30 He Zhe
2021-05-07 9:22 ` Tobias Klausmann
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From: He Zhe @ 2021-05-07 8:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rth, ink, mattst88, linux-alpha, LKML
Hello maintainers,
There is no "SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0" in arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c
and the following copyright is found.
"
Copyright (C) 1997 by
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts.
All rights reserved.
"
Does this conflict with GPLv2? Anything else we need to know when using this as opensource software?
Thanks,
Zhe
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* Re: Concern about arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c
2021-05-07 8:30 Concern about arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c He Zhe
@ 2021-05-07 9:22 ` Tobias Klausmann
2021-05-26 3:42 ` He Zhe
2021-07-16 6:28 ` Matt Turner
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Tobias Klausmann @ 2021-05-07 9:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-alpha, LKML
Hi!
On Fri, 07 May 2021, He Zhe wrote:
> There is no "SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0" in arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c
> and the following copyright is found.
> "
> Copyright (C) 1997 by
> Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts.
> All rights reserved.
> "
That file is ancient (I reckon it's at least two decades old) and
looks like a wholesale include of a DEC/Digital .h file for that
particular chip. Since we didn't have DCOs or anything like that
back then, I am unsure what the license (if any) actually is.
It's even difficult to figure out when (and by who) it was first
committed. The oldest reference in a grafted-together git repo I
could find was from 2.1.88.
Best,
Tobias
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* Re: Concern about arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c
2021-05-07 8:30 Concern about arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c He Zhe
2021-05-07 9:22 ` Tobias Klausmann
@ 2021-05-26 3:42 ` He Zhe
2021-07-16 6:28 ` Matt Turner
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: He Zhe @ 2021-05-26 3:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rth, ink, mattst88, linux-alpha, LKML
Kindly ping.
Zhe
On 5/7/21 4:30 PM, He Zhe wrote:
> Hello maintainers,
>
> There is no "SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0" in arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c
> and the following copyright is found.
> "
> Copyright (C) 1997 by
> Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts.
> All rights reserved.
> "
>
> Does this conflict with GPLv2? Anything else we need to know when using this as opensource software?
>
> Thanks,
> Zhe
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* Re: Concern about arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c
2021-05-07 8:30 Concern about arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c He Zhe
2021-05-07 9:22 ` Tobias Klausmann
2021-05-26 3:42 ` He Zhe
@ 2021-07-16 6:28 ` Matt Turner
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Matt Turner @ 2021-07-16 6:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: He Zhe; +Cc: Richard Henderson, Ivan Kokshaysky, linux-alpha, LKML
On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 1:31 AM He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com> wrote:
>
> Hello maintainers,
>
> There is no "SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0" in arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c
> and the following copyright is found.
> "
> Copyright (C) 1997 by
> Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts.
> All rights reserved.
> "
>
> Does this conflict with GPLv2? Anything else we need to know when using this as opensource software?
Unless you're using a DEC Alpha CPU, you're not using this code.
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