Re: ipc: License cleanup

Manfred Spraul <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:27:07 +0100
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-spdx
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

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@Michal: Thanks.
@Tim: Please add a reference to this mail to your change:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/20260119-heimcomputer-antiseptisch-d26168914a0d@brauner/T/#t

For me, GPL-V2 is ok.
For Michal as well, see below.

--
     Manfred

On 5/23/22 8:00 PM, Michal Wronski wrote:
> Added valid Krzysztof's email
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 7:58 PM Michal Wronski 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>     Any license compliant with linux kernel licensing rules is fine
>     for me. I don't know which one is preferred though.
>
>     best regards,
>     Michal
>
>     On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 8:58 PM Manfred Spraul
>     <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>         Hello Thomas,
>
>         On 5/22/22 16:54, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>         > Manfred!
>         >
>         > 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.
>
>         Sorry, no, the initial authors of the file were:
>
>           * Copyright (C) 2003,2004  Krzysztof Benedyczak
>         ([email protected])
>           *                          Michal Wronski
>         ([email protected])
>           *
>
>
>         I did cleanup & merge support and probably many small changes.
>
>         But from what I remember, the majority of the code is from
>         Krzysztof and
>         Michal.
>
>
>         > 1) this file is released under the gpl
>         >
>         >       ipc/mqueue.c
>         >
>         >
>         https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/?id=be94d44e818a5
>         >
>         > 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.
>
>         --
>
>              Manfred
>