Similar comment as for patches 6 and 16: the additional disclaimer paragraph at the bottom (beginning with "THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY...") appears to come from a BSD-style license, not GPL. I'm not sure this disclaimer should be deleted and replaced by just a standard GPL-2.0-or-later tag. Steve On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 1:20 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 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 see > the file copying if not write to the free software foundation 675 > mass ave cambridge ma 02139 usa this software is provided by the > author 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 author 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 3 file(s). > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-spdx.git/commit/?h=step2&id=9296825b00e9 > --- > drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c | 27 +-------------------------- > drivers/scsi/a100u2w.h | 27 +-------------------------- > drivers/scsi/initio.h | 27 +-------------------------- > 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-) > > --- a/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c > @@ -1,35 +1,10 @@ > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later > /* > * Initio A100 device driver for Linux. > * > * Copyright (c) 1994-1998 Initio Corporation > * Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Christoph Hellwig > * All rights reserved. > - * > - * 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, 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; see the file COPYING. If not, write to > - * the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. > - * > - * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR 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 AUTHOR 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. > */ > > /* > --- a/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.h > +++ b/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.h > @@ -1,35 +1,10 @@ > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */ > /* > * Initio A100 device driver for Linux. > * > * Copyright (c) 1994-1998 Initio Corporation > * All rights reserved. > * > - * 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, 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; see the file COPYING. If not, write to > - * the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. > - * > - * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR 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 AUTHOR 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. > - * > * Revision History: > * 06/18/98 HL, Initial production Version 1.02 > * 12/19/98 bv, Use spinlocks for 2.1.95 and up > --- a/drivers/scsi/initio.h > +++ b/drivers/scsi/initio.h > @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */ > /************************************************************************** > * Initio 9100 device driver for Linux. > * > @@ -6,32 +7,6 @@ > * > * Cleanups (c) Copyright 2007 Red Hat <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > * > - * 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, 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; see the file COPYING. If not, write to > - * the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. > - * > - * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR 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 AUTHOR 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. > - * > **************************************************************************/ > > > > -- Steve Winslow Director of Strategic Programs The Linux Foundation swinslow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx