[PATCH] licenses: add GPL-2.0-with-Linux-syscall-note
Denis OSTERLAND-HEIM <[email protected]>
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According to Linux copying notice[^1] the SPDX copyright should be `GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note`. AFAIK there is no `WITH` operator in yocto yet, so I created GPL-2.0-with-Linux-syscall-note based on SPDX[^2] and Linux[^3]. spdx.org/licenses does not list this license, because of the prefered use of WITH operator. For example GPL-2.0-with-autoconf-exception[^4] is now marked deprecated. It would be good to have something like `LICENSE = "GPL2.0-only + Linux-syscall-note"` in the future. [^1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/COPY ING [^2]: https://spdx.org/licenses/Linux-syscall-note.html [^3]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/LICE NSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note [^4]: https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-with-autoconf-exception.html Signed-off-by: Denis Osterland-Heim <[email protected]> --- .../GPL-2.0-with-Linux-syscall-note | 15 +++++++++++++++ meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc | 2 +- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0-with-Linux-syscall-note diff --git a/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0-with-Linux-syscall-note b/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0-with-Linux-syscall-note new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7fc191baf1 --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0-with-Linux-syscall-note @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +insert GPL v2 text here + + NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel + services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use + of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". + Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software + Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux + kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it. + + Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel + is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not + v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. + + Linus Torvalds + diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc index 0132fcffb3..1765974666 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ SUMMARY = "Linux kernel" SECTION = "kernel" -LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only" +LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-with-Linux-syscall-note" HOMEPAGE = "https://www.yoctoproject.org/" LIC_FILES_CHKSUM ?= "file://COPYING;md5=d7810fab7487fb0aad327b76f1be7cd7" -- 2.45.2
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