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3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Greg Kroah-Hartman
6f52b16c5b License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license
Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2.  Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.

Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier.  The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception.  SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
Mikko Rapeli
53dc65d4d3 include/uapi/linux/ipx.h: fix conflicting defitions with glibc netipx/ipx.h
Fixes these compiler warnings via libc-compat.h when glibc netipx/ipx.h is
included before linux/ipx.h:

./linux/ipx.h:9:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct sockaddr_ipx’
./linux/ipx.h:26:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ipx_route_definition’
./linux/ipx.h:32:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ipx_interface_definition’
./linux/ipx.h:49:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ipx_config_data’
./linux/ipx.h:58:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ipx_route_def’

Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-08-22 16:25:15 -07:00
David Howells
607ca46e97 UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-10-13 10:46:48 +01:00