Re: [PATCH] sparc: Remove redundant copy of the LGPL-2.0

[Kjetil Oftedal]

On 27/05/2019, Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We already provide the LGPL-2.0 text in LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.0,
> so there is no need for this additional copy here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/sparc/lib/COPYING.LIB | 481 -------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 481 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 arch/sparc/lib/COPYING.LIB
>
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/lib/COPYING.LIB b/arch/sparc/lib/COPYING.LIB
> deleted file mode 100644
> index eb685a5ec981..000000000000
> --- a/arch/sparc/lib/COPYING.LIB
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,481 +0,0 @@
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Looks like something has gone "wrong" in this part of the kernel tree.
I guess the intention of the COPYING.LIB file was to license the
contents of the
sparc/lib folder under LGPL so that optimized standard C functions can
easily be
shared between the kernel and any userland libc using LGPL.

In b24413180f5600bcb3bb70fbed5cf186b60864bd (License cleanup: add SPDX
GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license) all these files
were suddenly (re)licenced
under GPL-2.0.


Best regards,
Kjetil Oftedal