Richard, Steve: On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 2:42 AM Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 8:27 PM Steve Winslow > <swinslow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > For this one, 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. > > I am inclined to agree with Steve. It's materially different from the > disclaimers in GPLv2 itself and could also indicate the remnants of an > otherwise vanished BSD license notice. The commit log [1] shows this was clearly always this way and is original code [2] People do funky stuff at times and mix and match notices and disclaimers from various origins. So this is IMHO a GPL alright and there is no BSD in play. FYI, I created a ticket in ScanCode [3] and pushed a commit in a branch to improve this: The score returned with these notices will not be 100% but 95% and there are now notes that the disclaimer is BSD-like The legal question is whether such a disclaimer would need to be kept or not. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-spdx.git/log/drivers/net/can/slcan.c [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-spdx.git/commit/drivers/net/can/slcan.c?id=a1044e36e457fb6dbdf90ce756d578b251d99b5e [3] https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/issues/1569 -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne
