On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 6:12 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> 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 the full
> gnu general public license is in this distribution in the file
> called copying
I just want to note that the final sentence/paragraph in this pattern,
alerting the user to the location of the license text ("The full GNU
General Public License is in this distribution in the file called
COPYING.") arguably raises its own sort of "keep intact" issue,
separate from the things we've been more focused on (notices of the
applicability of the license, and warranty/liability disclaimers
juxtaposed with the license notice). This may have come up in earlier
cases I looked at but if so I didn't think about it.
Richard
> 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=batch6&id=279eeed95c57
> ---
> drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c | 14 +-------------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> /*
> * Copyright (c) 2006 ARM Ltd.
> * Copyright (c) 2010 ST-Ericsson SA
> @@ -6,19 +7,6 @@
> * Author: Peter Pearse <peter.pearse@xxxxxxx>
> * Author: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> *
> - * 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.
> - *
> - * The full GNU General Public License is in this distribution in the file
> - * called COPYING.
> - *
> * Documentation: ARM DDI 0196G == PL080
> * Documentation: ARM DDI 0218E == PL081
> * Documentation: S3C6410 User's Manual == PL080S
>
>
--
Richard Fontana
Senior Commercial Counsel
Red Hat, Inc.
