From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D626FC282CE for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2019 09:36:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA6F3249CF for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2019 09:36:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726937AbfFDJgl (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2019 05:36:41 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:43267 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726918AbfFDJgl (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2019 05:36:41 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.110] ([95.118.47.44]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue106 [212.227.15.183]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1Ma1D8-1h2DXz24EG-00VuWY; Tue, 04 Jun 2019 11:36:27 +0200 Subject: Re: [Batch 16 patch 17/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 242 To: Greg KH , "Zavras, Alexios" Cc: Thomas Gleixner , "linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org" References: <20190602204441.312079455@linutronix.de> <20190602204654.544914599@linutronix.de> <27E3B830FA35C7429A77DAEEDEB734477E3FEBAE@irsmsx105.ger.corp.intel.com> <20190603180436.GB19359@kroah.com> From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" Organization: metux IT consult Message-ID: <0af8949d-1872-63df-9a08-cf6fdb309dd5@metux.net> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 09:36:25 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190603180436.GB19359@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:jc20jEQq0XhbIKTPQ9IWIvoeV8kzFRY3WpHRHg8b/Q6i+xyxtn4 HFjb22cGMeC5waXzBAXUXv0dsMhyy+/47F2GKlxeahfxRGQO+oAzjk7cakdBHuG4Ib3BBhY uvMM5/kwNmQdyEnRhoiKnWP+T9C3FBZQlWO9oa0rCr/+vNddu5NOQ819H+bea2KG6G6MnyP hFV1UOWAdCKduzniKtWOA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:Usu6iXSevuA=:xlM5UbDnsMtVXM0vkxoYKt ncV/+isI7fL3jZNTIw1fHurzI17TB0aQ8V/Fgm/6G5bg9bQk/OP6oZb6Bj0RpFpz3eI0bDRt+ Dg/v8gypZc2VT5usDpvCWyn9dWj+GNWm+5xkeujERorwj5d2AWMLWGKsAS785oJS8TStHKvUy ZaQeyuKYOMit7RGqwzq/WAuLQRfKlNrRc3s4xonouQ+5h47Q8SCx0BFIAP2n5RKn6EHjBdKM2 IR0ZooYNaCrgAzBJVQ+tF4DkvWoFD7UbqmwiUkbD84b0H3DMbaHYjfW0p/n60es2tRJu3X/Db HkPo8TOR+ZJR48WeEWzbIRp7QsqTRdJslqI4cL9vW0GNc2pvfBJPmNhoRrwNykRzX6g5ozZ+Q KL2CEouMRbsF7yRnIqA14dDaFSMo8qSYMkox0erUuUjkVTBR7Wu0jES0Jq6YxvvB4mNDvTZBW i0OO//1So7B7mzynLDvY864bSt78b0p4u0idQBrDS8ib4LqWpVlF4fRI2/47z1QcxSIscjLAH 3BDgOEY3x0Fmf+u9nBb2q8ndct6oz+oCajB527K3BWcUliu11slLBCbiiurB4e5Y78SczHkoO hRrUwh8Uy0TIL/UeWDG8FRjONZtvW/5NE3NL1nOcffGME7EGsErQV0Dx+1ICjVJdAYHIphHgb dH994M1KWAk1gLM7hSDORDyIHmJHkhvzUJQI0fSqVYc2rTb7HpoGLXB4QZ6DiIGDuk2HPH2rd asjee0zrL4XNWEyO6mk9gEw06tJe7RpvJhvISP0asb2+IxOTMQ4lnSQ4ukc= Sender: linux-spdx-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org On 03.06.19 18:04, Greg KH wrote: >>> Sun3 Lance ethernet driver, by Sam Creasey (sammy@users.qual.net). >>> - This driver is a part of the linux kernel, and is thus distributed>>> - under the GNU General Public License.>>>>>> The values used in LANCE_OBIO and LANCE_IRQ seem to be empirically>>> true for the correct IRQ and address of the lance registers. They>>>> No license version -- and not even a reference to COPYING.> > "a part of the linux kernel", which is GPLv2. That would be my spontaneous interpretation, too. But, OTOH, I don't see a hard reason for a different one, eg. the current GPL version from back then, or any version. Grmpf. tricky. Does anybody know whether conclusive actions also apply to copyright law ? I believe so, but IANAL. I've just asked RMS whether he knows some legally useful material on that, hope he isn't too busy. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering info@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287