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>
These are cleanups and smaller changes that either depend on earlier
feature branches or came in late during the development cycle.
We normally try to get all cleanups early, so these are the exceptions:
- A follow-up on the clocksource reworks, hopefully the last time
we need to merge clocksource subsystem changes through arm-soc.
A first set of patches was part of the original 3.10 arm-soc cleanup
series because of interdependencies with timer drivers now moved out
of arch/arm.
- Migrating the SPEAr13xx platform away from using auxdata for DMA
channel descriptions towards using information in device tree,
based on the earlier SPEAr multiplatform series
- A few follow-ups on the Atmel SAMA5 support and other changes
for Atmel at91 based on the larger at91 reworks.
- Moving the armada irqchip implementation to drivers/irqchip
- Several OMAP cleanups following up on the larger series already
merged in 3.10.
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Merge tag 'cleanup-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC late cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
"These are cleanups and smaller changes that either depend on earlier
feature branches or came in late during the development cycle. We
normally try to get all cleanups early, so these are the exceptions:
- A follow-up on the clocksource reworks, hopefully the last time we
need to merge clocksource subsystem changes through arm-soc.
A first set of patches was part of the original 3.10 arm-soc
cleanup series because of interdependencies with timer drivers now
moved out of arch/arm.
- Migrating the SPEAr13xx platform away from using auxdata for DMA
channel descriptions towards using information in device tree,
based on the earlier SPEAr multiplatform series
- A few follow-ups on the Atmel SAMA5 support and other changes for
Atmel at91 based on the larger at91 reworks.
- Moving the armada irqchip implementation to drivers/irqchip
- Several OMAP cleanups following up on the larger series already
merged in 3.10."
* tag 'cleanup-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (50 commits)
ARM: OMAP4: change the device names in usb_bind_phy
ARM: OMAP2+: Fix mismerge for timer.c between ff931c82 and da4a686a
ARM: SPEAr: conditionalize SMP code
ARM: arch_timer: Silence debug preempt warnings
ARM: OMAP: remove unused variable
serial: amba-pl011: fix !CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE case
ata: arasan: remove the need for platform_data
ARM: at91/sama5d34ek.dts: remove not needed compatibility string
ARM: at91: dts: add MCI DMA support
ARM: at91: dts: add i2c dma support
ARM: at91: dts: set #dma-cells to the correct value
ARM: at91: suspend both memory controllers on at91sam9263
irqchip: armada-370-xp: slightly cleanup irq controller driver
irqchip: armada-370-xp: move IRQ handler to avoid forward declaration
irqchip: move IRQ driver for Armada 370/XP
ARM: mvebu: move L2 cache initialization in init_early()
devtree: add binding documentation for sp804
ARM: integrator-cp: convert use CLKSRC_OF for timer init
ARM: versatile: use OF init for sp804 timer
ARM: versatile: add versatile dtbs to dtbs target
...
Some constant definitions are only defined for spear13xx, so
we must not attempt to build SPEAr SMP support when that
SoC is not enabled.
arch/arm/mach-spear/platsmp.c:25:35:
error: 'VA_SCU_BASE' undeclared here (not in a function)
arch/arm/mach-spear/platsmp.c: In function 'spear13xx_smp_prepare_cpus':
arch/arm/mach-spear/platsmp.c:111:58: error: 'SYS_LOCATION' undeclared (first use in this function)
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
The hotplug.c file uses assembly instructions that are only available
on ARMv7 but not on ARMv6. This is ok because we know that code will
only run on arm ARMv7 SPEARr13xx, but it produces build errors when
we also enable one of the ARMv6 targets in a multiplatform configuration.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
The spear platform is now multiplatform capable in principle,
and everything still builds when enabled. This slightly rearranges
the Kconfig options for spear to enable both single- and multiplatform
support. As a side-effect, even building the single spear kernel
can now enable spear3xx and spear6xx simultaneously, although
not together with spear13xx, because they are a different archicture
version (v7 instead of v5).
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
There are no conflicting files between the three mach-spear* directories
and plat-spear any more, so we can now move all file to a common
mach-spear directory.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Greg Kroah-Hartman