Re: parisc: License cleanup

On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 04:54:57PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Matthew!
> 
> As you might know we are working on cleaning up the licensing mess in the
> kernel and convert it to SPDX license identifiers as the only source of
> license information.
> 
> Archaeology found unspecific GPL license references, which have been
> authored by you.
> 
> 1)  licensed under the gnu gpl
> 
>     arch/parisc/kernel/syscall.S
> 
>     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=9d1ec5d7a336d
> 
> 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.

Hmm.  I was working for Linuxcare at the time, under contract to HP.
I _suspect_ the copyright on that file was actually sold to HP.
And you're not going to find anyone who cares.  At the time, I absolutely
would have meant (had it existed):

// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

so it's fine with me if you add that line.