Re: [PATCH] scsi: uapi: ufs: Fix SPDX license identifier

From: James Bottomley
Date: Thu Jul 11 2019 - 20:22:04 EST


On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 20:14 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> Avri,
>
> > added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is the officially
> > assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall exception.
> > This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non
> > GPL code, without confusing license compliance tools.
>
> I'd like Arnd to ack the license change since he has made changes
> (however mechanical) to the file.

Just to note: this isn't technically a licence change at all. The
entire kernel is covered by the system call exception and this file is
thus also covered. It's really a simple tag change to allow tools
which parse uapi header files to recognise from the SPDX tags that this
is a kernel header to which the Linux-syscall-note applies.

James