Re: ipc: License cleanup
Manfred Spraul <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:27:07 +0100
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Hi, // reply to old mail. The old mail was multipart html/text, thus it is not archived on lore. @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 >