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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-11-01 17:07:57 +0300 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-11-02 13:10:55 +0300 |
commit | b24413180f5600bcb3bb70fbed5cf186b60864bd (patch) | |
tree | 4ebcae0dab27ee8bfcecb9a5daf65353c6dd7ed6 /include/linux/sunrpc | |
parent | bb176f67090ca54869fc1262c913aa69d2ede070 (diff) | |
download | linux-b24413180f5600bcb3bb70fbed5cf186b60864bd.tar.xz |
License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.
How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).
All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.
- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.
For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139
and resulted in the first patch in this series.
If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930
and resulted in the second patch in this series.
- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1
and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).
- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.
In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.
Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.
In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.
Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct
This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.
These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sunrpc')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/addr.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/auth_gss.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/debug.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/gss_api.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/metrics.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/msg_prot.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/rpc_pipe_fs.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/stats.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth_gss.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/svcsock.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/timer.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/types.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/xprtmultipath.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sunrpc/xprtsock.h | 1 |
22 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/addr.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/addr.h index 5c9c6cd08d3b..07d454873b6d 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/addr.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/addr.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/addr.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h index 8fd3504946ad..d9af474a857d 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/auth_gss.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/auth_gss.h index cebdf8745901..0c9eac351aab 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/auth_gss.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/auth_gss.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/auth_gss.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h index 55ef67bea06b..71c237e8240e 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/debug.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/debug.h index 8da0f37f3bdc..f6aeed07fe04 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/debug.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/debug.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/debug.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/gss_api.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/gss_api.h index 68ec78c1aa48..5ac5db4d295f 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/gss_api.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/gss_api.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/gss_api.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/metrics.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/metrics.h index 694eecb2f1b5..9baed7b355b2 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/metrics.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/metrics.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/metrics.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/msg_prot.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/msg_prot.h index 59cbf16eaeb5..4722b28ec36a 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/msg_prot.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/msg_prot.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/msg_prot.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/rpc_pipe_fs.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/rpc_pipe_fs.h index 7f490bef9e99..a5704daf5df9 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/rpc_pipe_fs.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/rpc_pipe_fs.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ #ifndef _LINUX_SUNRPC_RPC_PIPE_FS_H #define _LINUX_SUNRPC_RPC_PIPE_FS_H diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h index c1768f9d993b..d96e74e114c0 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/stats.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/stats.h index edc64219f92b..84b92b4ad1c0 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/stats.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/stats.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/stats.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h index 38f561b2dda3..3b9f0d1dbb80 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h index 6a2ad38f5458..1caf7bc83306 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h index d03932055328..7c3656505847 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth_gss.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth_gss.h index 726aff1a5201..a4528b26c8aa 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth_gss.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth_gss.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth_gss.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svcsock.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svcsock.h index 2e780134f449..119718a922f2 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svcsock.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svcsock.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/svcsock.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/timer.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/timer.h index 697d6e69d61f..242dbe00b5ff 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/timer.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/timer.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/timer.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/types.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/types.h index 11a7536c0fd2..bd3c8e05632b 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/types.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/types.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/types.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h index 86b59e3525a5..d950223c64b1 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * XDR standard data types and function declarations * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h index 5a7bff41f6b7..7fad83881ce1 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprtmultipath.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprtmultipath.h index 507418c1c69e..af1257c030d2 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprtmultipath.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprtmultipath.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * RPC client multipathing definitions * diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprtsock.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprtsock.h index c9959d7e3579..ae0f99b9b965 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprtsock.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprtsock.h @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ /* * linux/include/linux/sunrpc/xprtsock.h * |