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Greg Kroah-Hartman b24413180f 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>
2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg 2e74a74f27 sparc: drop use of extern for prototypes in arch/sparc/*
Drop the remaining uses of extern for prototypes in .h files
in the sparc specific part of the kernel tree.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-18 19:01:29 -07:00
Andres Salomon 3cfc535c5d of/promtree: make drivers/of/pdt.c no longer sparc-only
Clean up pdt.c:
 - make build dependent upon config OF_PROMTREE
 - #ifdef out the sparc-specific stuff
 - create pdt-specific header

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2010-10-10 21:53:30 -06:00
Andres Salomon 035ebefc73 of/sparc: move is_root_node() to of.h
Rename is_root_node() to of_node_is_root() and make it available for
all archs to use, as it's not PROM-specific.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2010-07-14 17:08:03 -06:00
Grant Likely 0d351c3e93 of/sparc: Remove sparc-local declaration of allnodes and devtree_lock
Both allnodes and devtree_lock are defined in common code.  The
extern declaration should be in the common header too so that the
compiler can type check.  allnodes is already in of.h, but
devtree_lock should be declared there too.

This patch removes the SPARC declarations and uses decls in of.h instead.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-14 13:02:44 -07:00
David S. Miller 890db403d5 sparc: Call OF and MD cpu scanning explicitly from paging_init()
We need to split up the cpu present mask setup from the cpu_data
initialization, and this is a first step towards that.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-16 04:56:19 -07:00
David S. Miller bf944c370a sparc: Restore irq_trans_init() call in prom_create_node().
This broke sparc64 in various ways.

Add an empty dummy hook in sparc32's prom_32.c so that we
can potentially handle things on that side similarly, and
in particular avoid a prom_common.c ifdef :-)

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-07 00:46:33 -08:00
David S. Miller 23dc758e47 sparc: Move prom_build_devicetree() into prom_common.c
To make this work we provide a dummy nop implementation
of of_fill_in_cpu_data() for sparc32.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 18:16:48 -08:00
David S. Miller 6524036a1e sparc: Move core of OF device tree building code into prom_common.c
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 18:15:03 -08:00
David S. Miller 7d9439d50b sparc: Move create_node() and friends into prom_common.c
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 17:09:10 -08:00
David S. Miller b9e5567cda sparc: Move property building code into prom_common.c
Unfortunately there is some sparc32/sparc64 ifdef'ery in
here due to the difference in how the prom_firstprop()
and prom_nextprop() routines work.

This will be eliminated eventually.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 17:04:22 -08:00
David S. Miller e5ff0fe31d sparc: Move 'unique_id' into prom_common.c and rename to 'prom_unique_id'
This will be used in a subsequent changeset.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 17:03:30 -08:00
David S. Miller 5fce09c6f6 sparc: Move irq_trans_init() and support code into seperate file.
All sparc64 specific, so only build this file on sparc64.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 17:02:32 -08:00
David S. Miller efeac2f876 sparc: Mark prom_early_alloc non-static.
A subsequent changeset will use this.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 17:01:27 -08:00
David S. Miller 657f201df6 sparc: Create common header file for prom_{32,64}.c
This is where common declarations will go as we unify
these files as much as possible into common code.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 16:44:29 -08:00