From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E6B7C433B4 for ; Fri, 7 May 2021 09:30:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBB06144F for ; Fri, 7 May 2021 09:30:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236671AbhEGJbe (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2021 05:31:34 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:46704 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230092AbhEGJbc (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2021 05:31:32 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 474 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Fri, 07 May 2021 02:30:32 PDT Received: from mail.schwarzvogel.de (mail.schwarzvogel.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:173:2c8b::25]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 764EBC061574; Fri, 7 May 2021 02:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from klausman by mail.schwarzvogel.de with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1lewgt-000Csv-Pv; Fri, 07 May 2021 11:22:35 +0200 Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 11:22:35 +0200 From: Tobias Klausmann To: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: Concern about arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, LKML References: <7b314145-cbb9-b491-ccf5-d6021a574339@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7b314145-cbb9-b491-ccf5-d6021a574339@windriver.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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