On Thu, 23 May 2019, Thomas Gleixner 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 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 good title or non infringement see the gnu general public
GOOD TITLE or NON INFRINGEMENT.
looks like another interesting one. /me puts it to the pile
> license for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu
> general public license along with this program if not write to the
> free software foundation inc 51 franklin st fifth floor boston ma
> 02110 1301 usa
>
> extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
>
> GPL-2.0-or-later
>
> has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 5 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=2aeb5cde3595
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h | 17 +----------------
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c | 17 +----------------
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c | 17 +----------------
> drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-event.c | 17 +----------------
> drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-led.c | 17 +----------------
>
> 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h
> @@ -1,21 +1,6 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
> /*
> * Copyright (C) 2008, VMware, Inc.
....
> --- a/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-event.c
> +++ b/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-event.c
> @@ -1,23 +1,8 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> /*
> * via-pmu event device for reporting some events that come through the PMU
> *
> * Copyright 2006 Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I just did a quick check on that variant:
Files: 48
Copyright holders: 19
A random pile of companies (existing and vanished, acquired ones) plus
a handful of individuals.
Goes back to around 2000.
Thanks,
tglx
