Re: [patch 16/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 16

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 16/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 16
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 10:31:44 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1905201027400.24434@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190519154042.138630237@linutronix.de>

Oliver,

On Sun, 19 May 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

we are trying to clean up the licensing mess in the kernel with a lot of
assistance by tools. The goal is to replace all the boiler plate text with
SPDX identifiers.

We stumbled over the following:

> Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
> 
>   this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
>   it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
>   the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
>   your option any later version this program is distributed in the
>   hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
>   the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
>   purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
>   should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
>   with this program if not see http www gnu org licenses gpl html this
>   software is provided by the copyright holders and contributors as is
>   and any express or implied warranties including but not limited to
>   the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
>   particular purpose are disclaimed in no event shall the copyright
>   owner or contributors be liable for any direct indirect incidental
>   special exemplary or consequential damages including but not limited
>   to procurement of substitute goods or services loss of use data or
>   profits or business interruption however caused and on any theory of
>   liability whether in contract strict liability or tort including
>   negligence or otherwise arising in any way out of the use of this
>   software even if advised of the possibility of such damage
> 
> extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
> 
>   GPL-2.0-or-later
> 
> has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1 file(s).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> ---
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-spdx.git/commit/?h=step2&id=579b91f12dbc
> ---
>  drivers/net/can/slcan.c |   28 +---------------------------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 27 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/net/can/slcan.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/slcan.c
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
>  /*
>   * slcan.c - serial line CAN interface driver (using tty line discipline)
>   *
> @@ -6,33 +7,6 @@
>   * slip.c Authors  : Laurence Culhane <loz@holmes.demon.co.uk>
>   *                   Fred N. van Kempen <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
>   * slcan.c Author  : Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
> - *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> - * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
> - * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
> - * option) any later version.
> - *
> - * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> - * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> - * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
> - * General Public License for more details.
> - *
> - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
> - * with this program; if not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

This is a bog standard GPL boilerplate, but the below is:

> - * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
> - * "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
> - * LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
> - * A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
> - * OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
> - * SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
> - * LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
> - * DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
> - * THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
> - * (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
> - * OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
> - * DAMAGE.

clearly a BSD style disclaimer. It's unclear what the intention of this
was. As the original contributor you might be able to shed some light on
it.

Thanks,

	tglx