Re: Concern about arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c

[Matt Turner]

On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 1:31 AM He Zhe <zhe.he@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello maintainers,
>
> There is no "SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0" in arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c
> and the following copyright is found.
> "
> Copyright (C) 1997 by
> Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts.
> All rights reserved.
> "
>
> Does this conflict with GPLv2? Anything else we need to know when using this as opensource software?

Unless you're using a DEC Alpha CPU, you're not using this code.