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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > * Fred N. van Kempen <waltje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > * slcan.c Author : Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > - * > - * 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
