From: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@oss.nxp.com>
To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, david.marchand@redhat.com, thomas@monjalon.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] license: add exception for Linux Kernel uAPI headers
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:38:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ffb4464-201f-e614-5fa9-a4cbb46e94b6@oss.nxp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250416123426.2638250-2-maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
On 16-04-2025 18:04, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> As approved by both Technical and Governing boards, Linux
> Kernel uAPI header files can now be imported into the
> kernel/linux/uapi directory.
>
> This patch also fix the SPDX tags checker script to take
> into account dual-licensed files.
>
> The process to import such headers is documented in
> doc/guides/contributing/linux_uapi.rst
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> ---
> devtools/check-spdx-tag.sh | 2 +-
> license/Linux-syscall-note | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> license/exceptions.txt | 17 +++++++++--------
> 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 license/Linux-syscall-note
>
> diff --git a/devtools/check-spdx-tag.sh b/devtools/check-spdx-tag.sh
> index 1fd0d579d3..984825026e 100755
> --- a/devtools/check-spdx-tag.sh
> +++ b/devtools/check-spdx-tag.sh
> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ check_licenses() {
> fi
> exceptions=$(build_exceptions_list)
> git grep -l SPDX-License-Identifier: -- $no_license_list $exceptions |
> - xargs grep -L -E 'SPDX-License-Identifier:[[:space:]]*\(?BSD-3-Clause' > $tmpfile
> + xargs grep -L -E 'SPDX-License-Identifier:[[:space:]]*(\(?|.* OR )BSD-3-Clause' > $tmpfile
>
> wrong_license=$(wc -l < $tmpfile)
> $quiet || cat $tmpfile
> diff --git a/license/Linux-syscall-note b/license/Linux-syscall-note
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..9abdad71fa
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/license/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
> +
> diff --git a/license/exceptions.txt b/license/exceptions.txt
> index d12fac2034..cf2034747d 100644
> --- a/license/exceptions.txt
> +++ b/license/exceptions.txt
> @@ -9,11 +9,12 @@ Note that following licenses are not exceptions:-
> - BSD-3-Clause OR LGPL-2.1
> - GPL-2.0 (*Only for kernel code*)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -SPDX Identifier | TB Approval Date | GB Approval Date | File name
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -MIT | 10/23/2019 | 02/10/2020 | lib/eal/windows/include/dirent.h
> -BSD-2-Clause | 10/23/2019 | 12/18/2019 | lib/eal/windows/include/getopt.h
> -ISC AND BSD-2-Clause | 10/23/2019 | 12/18/2019 | lib/eal/windows/getopt.c
> -MIT | 10/19/2022 | 10/18/2022 | drivers/net/gve/base/*
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +SPDX Identifier | TB Approval Date | GB Approval Date | File name
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +MIT | 10/23/2019 | 02/10/2020 | lib/eal/windows/include/dirent.h
> +BSD-2-Clause | 10/23/2019 | 12/18/2019 | lib/eal/windows/include/getopt.h
> +ISC AND BSD-2-Clause | 10/23/2019 | 12/18/2019 | lib/eal/windows/getopt.c
> +MIT | 10/19/2022 | 10/18/2022 | drivers/net/gve/base/*
> +GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note | 12/11/2024 | 04/14/2025 | kernel/linux/uapi/linux/*
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-17 5:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-16 12:34 [PATCH 0/4] Linux Kernel uAPI headers import Maxime Coquelin
2025-04-16 12:34 ` [PATCH 1/4] license: add exception for Linux Kernel uAPI headers Maxime Coquelin
2025-04-17 5:08 ` Hemant Agrawal [this message]
2025-04-16 12:34 ` [PATCH 2/4] uapi: import VDUSE header from v6.14 kernel Maxime Coquelin
2025-04-16 12:34 ` [PATCH 3/4] vhost: use imported VDUSE uAPI header Maxime Coquelin
2025-04-16 12:34 ` [PATCH 4/4] ci: check licenses Maxime Coquelin
2025-04-16 18:59 ` Maxime Coquelin
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