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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.

      reply	other threads:[~2022-05-22 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-22 14:54 parisc: License cleanup Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-22 19:35 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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