[Question] What is the license of scripts/basic/fixdep.c ?

[Question] What is the license of scripts/basic/fixdep.c ?

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi.


The comment block of scripts/basic/fixdep.c says as follows:


 * Author       Kai Germaschewski
 * Copyright    2002 by Kai Germaschewski  <kai.germaschewski@gmx.de>
 *
 * This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
 * of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.



It does not explicitly mention the version of GPL.

In this case, I think the corresponding SPDX tag
is GPL-1.0+ instead of GPL-2.0

Is this correct?



There could be another problem regarding of this.



Commit 9f7ef9854e80 copied scripts/basic/fixdep.c
to tools/build/fixdep.c, but it ripped off its license term.

Later, it was tagged as GPL-2.0 by b24413180

See 'git show  b24413180 -- tools/build/fixdep.c'


Maybe tools/build/fixdep.c should be corrected to GPL-1.0+ ?


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada

Re: [Question] What is the license of scripts/basic/fixdep.c ?

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 5:58 PM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
>
> The comment block of scripts/basic/fixdep.c says as follows:
>
>
>  * Author       Kai Germaschewski
>  * Copyright    2002 by Kai Germaschewski  <kai.germaschewski@gmx.de>
>  *
>  * This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
>  * of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
>
>
>
> It does not explicitly mention the version of GPL.
>
> In this case, I think the corresponding SPDX tag
> is GPL-1.0+ instead of GPL-2.0
>
> Is this correct?
>
>
>
> There could be another problem regarding of this.
>
>
>
> Commit 9f7ef9854e80 copied scripts/basic/fixdep.c
> to tools/build/fixdep.c, but it ripped off its license term.
>
> Later, it was tagged as GPL-2.0 by b24413180
>
> See 'git show  b24413180 -- tools/build/fixdep.c'
>
>
> Maybe tools/build/fixdep.c should be corrected to GPL-1.0+ ?


I am not an expert of software license, but
a little more thought about this
if scripts/basic/fixdep.c is GPL-1.0+,



Probably, either of the following is correct.


Must tools/build/fixdep.c inherit GPL-1.0+
from script/basic/fixdep.c ?

 or

Can you choose the license (any in GPL-1.0, GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0,
GPL-1.0+, GPL-2.0+)
for tools/build/fixdep.c at your opinion?
(In this case, Jiri Olsa, the author of commit 9f7ef9854e800)



If the latter is correct, we do not need to fix tools/build/fixdep.c


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada