Re: [PATCH 3/3] LICENSES: add Linux-syscall-note exception text

[Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>]

On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 08:21:49AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> We include Linux headers in barebox, which are licensed under GPL with
> this exception.
> 
> While we are GPL-2.0 as well and don't require the exception, we should
> always provide license texts to the License-Identifiers we are using.
> 
> At the time of this writing these are:
>   * BSD-1-Clause
>   * BSD-2-Clause
>   * BSD-3-Clause
>   * GPL-2.0-only, -or-later and WITH Linux-syscall-note
>   * LGPL-2.1 and -or-later
>   * MIT
>   * X11
>   * ISC
> 
> With this commit, our LICENSES directory now contains licenses for all
> of them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note

Reviewed-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>

> 
> diff --git a/LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note b/LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..9abdad71fafd
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note
> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
> +SPDX-Exception-Identifier: Linux-syscall-note
> +SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/Linux-syscall-note.html
> +SPDX-Licenses: GPL-2.0, GPL-2.0+, GPL-1.0+, LGPL-2.0, LGPL-2.0+, LGPL-2.1, LGPL-2.1+, GPL-2.0-only, GPL-2.0-or-later
> +Usage-Guide:
> +  This exception is used together with one of the above SPDX-Licenses
> +  to mark user space API (uapi) header files so they can be included
> +  into non GPL compliant user space application code.
> +  To use this exception add it with the keyword WITH to one of the
> +  identifiers in the SPDX-Licenses tag:
> +    SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX-License> WITH Linux-syscall-note
> +License-Text:
> +
> +   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
> + services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
> + of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
> + Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
> + Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux
> + kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.
> +
> + Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel
> + is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not
> + v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
> +
> +			Linus Torvalds
> +
> -- 
> 2.26.2
> 
> 
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