Re: [poky] [PATCH] licenses: add GPL-2.0-with-Linux-syscall-note

On Fri, 2024-11-22 at 10:28 +0100, Denis OSTERLAND-HEIM via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> 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

As Alex mentioned, this is the wrong list for this patch. There is also
a bigger issue in that your change removes the main GPLv2 license text
from the kernel license field. I'm not sure we can do that as is
becomes a fairly serious oversight.

I think we probably need to add dedicated WITH support to our license
code to resolve this.

Cheers,

Richard