Re: mm, [c]ramfs: License cleanup

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-spdx
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On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 4:54 AM Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Archaeology found unspecific GPL license references, which have been
> authored by you.
>
> 1) this file is released under the gpl
>
>    fs/cramfs/inode.c
>    fs/ramfs/file-mmu.c
>    fs/ramfs/inode.c
>    mm/shmem.c
>    mm/memfd.c (mm/shmem.c got split and the GPL reference got copied)
>
> Can you please either send cleanup patches for the affected files or
> indicate which GPLv2 variant you had in mind and I run it through my
> cleanup machinery.

Heh. All my historical code should be considered to be GPLv2-only.

As I'm sure you already knew, but wanted explicit confirmation of.

So please take this email as the confirmation for those files (and any
future historical archeology you do and find any other cases).

                   Linus
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