kernel/linux.git/LICENSES, branch v6.1.168

LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers

2021-12-16T13:33:10+00:00

Some files have been flagged with the new LGPL-2.1-or-later identifier which replace the original LGPL-2.1+ in the SPDX license identifier specification, but the identifiers are not mentioned as valid in the LGPL-2.1 license file. Add it, together with the LGPL-2.1-only at the the license file. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/12f38ebde4dcd8b1ecbd37df1b6ce2018426f6dd.1639657049.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes"

2021-07-15T12:31:24+00:00

A couple of exotic quote characters came in with this license text; they can confuse software that is not expecting non-ASCII text. Switch to normal quotes here, with no changes to the actual license text. Reported-by: Rahul T R Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Thorsten Leemhuis Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210703012931.30604-1-nm@ti.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license

2020-12-08T17:33:27+00:00

Add the full text of the CC-BY-4.0 license to the kernel tree as well as the required tags for reference and tooling. The license text was copied directly from the following url, but for clarification a 'Creative Commons' was added before 'Attribution 4.0 International' in the first line: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.txt CC-BY-4.0 is GPLv2 compatible, but when for example used for the kernel's documentation it can easily happen that sphinx during processing combines it with text or code from files using a more restrictive license[1]. This bears pitfalls, hence point that risk out and suggest to only use this license in combination with the GPLv2. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201201144314.GA14256@lst.de Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: Thomas Gleixner CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7115b6c20ae3e6db0370fe4002dd586011205e1c.1607063223.git.linux@leemhuis.info Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text

2020-09-16T12:33:49+00:00

The new files contributed to zlib have Zlib SPDX license identifier. Since there was no Zlib license text in LICENSES, scripts/spdxcheck.py reported the following errors: lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: Zlib lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc.h: 1:28 Invalid License ID: Zlib lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc_deflate.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: Zlib lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc_inflate.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: Zlib lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc_util.h: 1:28 Invalid License ID: Zlib The patch adds Zlib SPDX license to LICENSES/deprecated, thus resolving the issues reported by spdxcheck. Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

LICENSE: add GFDL deprecated licenses

2020-09-16T12:33:13+00:00

There are some files under Documentation which uses deprecated versions of GNU Free Documentation License, on both versions 1.1 and 1.2. On all cases, the license is with no Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts. Add the text file for them, as we'll start using SPDX for those. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated

2019-05-03T12:34:32+00:00

Make it clear in the directory name that these are not intended for new code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses

2019-05-03T12:34:16+00:00

Just like the CDDL the Apache license and the MPL must only be used as a choice in additional to an GPL2 compatible license. Copy over the boilerplate from the CDDL file to the other two after fixing it up to make it clear the licenses need to be GPL2 compatible, not just the more generic GPL compatible. For example the Apache 2 license is GPL3 compatible, but that doesn't matter for the kernel. Also move these licenses to a separate directory and document the rules in license-rules.rst. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

LICENSES: Add GCC runtime library exception text

2019-01-16T21:54:15+00:00

A recent commit added SPDX identifiers to the SuperH low level library code which originates from GCC. This code is licensed under the GPL 2.0 or later with the GCC runtime library exception. Unfortunately the authors did not bother to add the exception text to the LICENSES directory so spdxcheck fails with: arch/sh/lib/ashiftrt.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/ashlsi3.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/ashrsi3.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/lshrsi3.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/movmem.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/udiv_qrnnd.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/udivsi3.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/udivsi3_i4i-Os.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/udivsi3_i4i.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 Add the exception text along with the required tags which allow automated checking. Fixes: 4494ce4fb4ff ("sh: lib: convert to SPDX identifiers") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Kuninori Morimoto Cc: Simon Horman Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Kate Stewart Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2018-10-24T17:01:11+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo fixes and corrections" * tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits) docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits LICENSES: Add ISC license text LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs docs: fix some broken documentation references iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation ...

LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text

2018-10-18T09:28:50+00:00

Using non-GPL licenses for our documentation is rather problematic, as it can directly include other files, which generally are GPLv2 licensed and thus not compatible. Remove this license now that the only user (idr.rst) is gone to avoid people semi-accidentally using it again. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman