[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] treewide: add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to SPDX tag of uapi headers

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

> UAPI headers licensed under GPL are supposed to have exception
> "WITH Linux-syscall-note" so that they can be included into non-GPL
> user space application code.
> 
> The exception note is missing in some UAPI headers.
> 
> Some of them slipped in by the treewide conversion commit b24413180f56
> ("License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with
> no license"). Just run:
> 
>   $ git show --oneline b24413180f56 -- arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/
> 
> I believe they are not intentional, and should be fixed too.
> 
> This patch was generated by the following script:
> 
>   git grep -l --not -e Linux-syscall-note --and -e SPDX-License-Identifier \
>     -- :arch/*/include/uapi/asm/*.h :include/uapi/ :^*/Kbuild |
>   while read file
>   do
>           sed -i -e '/[[:space:]]OR[[:space:]]/s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/(\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note)/g' \
>           -e '/[[:space:]]or[[:space:]]/s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/(\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note)/g' \
>           -e '/[[:space:]]OR[[:space:]]/!{/[[:space:]]or[[:space:]]/!s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note/g}' $file
>   done
> 
> After this patch is applied, there are 5 UAPI headers that do not contain
> "WITH Linux-syscall-note". They are kept untouched since this exception
> applies only to GPL variants.
> 
>   $ git grep --not -e Linux-syscall-note --and -e SPDX-License-Identifier \
>     -- :arch/*/include/uapi/asm/*.h :include/uapi/ :^*/Kbuild
>   include/uapi/drm/panfrost_drm.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
>   include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
>   include/uapi/linux/qemu_fw_cfg.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause */
>   include/uapi/linux/vbox_err.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
>   include/uapi/linux/virtio_iommu.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause */
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>

Thanks for cleaning this up!

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>