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 due to this file being licensed under the gpl there is controversy over whether this permits you to write a module that includes this file without placing your module under the gpl please consult a lawyer for advice before doing this extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 2 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-spdx.git/commit/?h=batch5&id=994fb82851b0 --- include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 12 +----------- include/linux/security.h | 12 +----------- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h +++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */ /* * Linux Security Module interfaces * @@ -9,17 +10,6 @@ * Copyright (C) 2015 Intel Corporation. * Copyright (C) 2015 Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Copyright (C) 2016 Mellanox Techonologies - * - * 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. - * - * Due to this file being licensed under the GPL there is controversy over - * whether this permits you to write a module that #includes this file - * without placing your module under the GPL. Please consult a lawyer for - * advice before doing this. - * */ #ifndef __LINUX_LSM_HOOKS_H --- a/include/linux/security.h +++ b/include/linux/security.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */ /* * Linux Security plug * @@ -7,17 +8,6 @@ * Copyright (C) 2001 James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Copyright (C) 2001 Silicon Graphics, Inc. (Trust Technology Group) * Copyright (C) 2016 Mellanox Techonologies - * - * 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. - * - * Due to this file being licensed under the GPL there is controversy over - * whether this permits you to write a module that #includes this file - * without placing your module under the GPL. Please consult a lawyer for - * advice before doing this. - * */ #ifndef __LINUX_SECURITY_H