Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF
Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:38:43 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 12:32:57AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 09:30:31AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > That's a crazy exception, and one that should probably be talked about > > with the FSF to determine exactly what the SPDX lines should be. > > It is called the libgcc exception and has been around forever for the > files in libgcc.a that a lot of these low-level kernel helpers were > copied from as the kernel doesn't link libgcc. Ah, so it would be something like this exception: https://spdx.org/licenses/GCC-exception-2.0.html but the wording doesn't seem to match. I'll let the license lawyers figure this out, thanks for the hint! greg k-h