Dave! As you might know we are working on cleaning up the licensing mess in the kernel and convert it to SPDX license identifiers as the only source of license information. Archaeology found unspecific GPL license references, which have been authored by you. 1) released under the general public license (gpl) lib/list_debug.c 2) this code is released under the gnu general public license (gpl) this software is provided as is and any express or implied warranties including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed in no event shall the author be liable for any direct indirect incidental special exemplary or consequential damages (including but not limited to procurement of substitute goods or services loss of use data or profits or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability whether in contract strict liability or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software even if advised of the possibility of such damage drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/?id=61e17e546cebe Can you please either send cleanup patches for the affected files or indicate which GPLv2 variant you had in mind and I run it through my cleanup machinery. Thanks, Thomas