From: Tobias Klausmann <klausman@schwarzvogel.de>
To: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Concern about arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c
Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 11:22:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJUG2wovDYZQpJ9R@skade.schwarzvogel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b314145-cbb9-b491-ccf5-d6021a574339@windriver.com>
Hi!
On Fri, 07 May 2021, He Zhe wrote:
> 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.
> "
That file is ancient (I reckon it's at least two decades old) and
looks like a wholesale include of a DEC/Digital .h file for that
particular chip. Since we didn't have DCOs or anything like that
back then, I am unsure what the license (if any) actually is.
It's even difficult to figure out when (and by who) it was first
committed. The oldest reference in a grafted-together git repo I
could find was from 2.1.88.
Best,
Tobias
--
/* panic?? These should never occur in our application. */
linux-2.6.6/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aiclib.c
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-07 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-07 8:30 He Zhe
2021-05-07 9:22 ` Tobias Klausmann [this message]
2021-05-26 3:42 ` He Zhe
2021-07-16 6:28 ` Matt Turner
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