Hi Thomas and Steve! On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 1:10 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 19 May 2019, Steve Winslow wrote: > > > Same comment here as for patch 16: the additional all-caps disclaimer > > paragraph in the middle (beginning with "THIS SOFTWARE IS > > PROVIDED...") 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. > > Right. Did some archaeology. This thing seems to originate from TI, via > RidgeRun Inc. and then proliferated by Monta Vista and others. I did some light digging on my own and there are possibly two main cases that I listed in [1]: - things that have such a disclaimer but always in the clear context of a GPL license such as [2] - things where some BSD-like license terms were removed, but the disclaimer kept such as [3] IMHO the first case is a non issue and is clearly GPL. The second case may require some deeper historical review. [1] https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/issues/1569 [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-spdx.git/log/drivers/net/can/slcan.c [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-spdx.git/commit/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c?id=4023c4747861e8c56f46e5fa50bd4feb63fc91fc -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne
