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Greg Kroah-Hartman b24413180f License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Malcolm Priestley 4adc5a946a staging: vt6656: dead code remove 80211mgr.c/h
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-26 20:23:31 -04:00
Malcolm Priestley c6b16e197b staging: vt6656: remove dead code datarate
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-26 20:23:31 -04:00
Malcolm Priestley 3120761579 staging: vt6656: decode remove tether.c/h
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-26 20:23:31 -04:00
Malcolm Priestley 3f530ded0f staging: vt6656: dead code remove rc4.c/h
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-26 20:23:31 -04:00
Malcolm Priestley 08a9001544 staging: vt6656: dead code remove micheal.c/h
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-26 20:23:31 -04:00
Malcolm Priestley fa2cdd2b0a staging: vt6656: dead code remove tkip.c/h
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-26 20:23:31 -04:00
Malcolm Priestley 03e77fe366 staging: vt6656: dead code remove wctl
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-26 20:23:30 -04:00
Malcolm Priestley 04311c499f staging: vt6656: remove dead code wpa
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-26 20:23:30 -04:00
Malcolm Priestley efc839591e staging: vt6656: dead code remove wpa2.c
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-26 20:23:30 -04:00
Malcolm Priestley 1184337b3b staging: vt6656: dead code wpactl
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-26 20:23:30 -04:00
Malcolm Priestley 64d1c329fb staging: vt6656: dead code remove bssdb.c
The header will be remove later

Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-26 20:23:30 -04:00
Malcolm Priestley d4d89fd171 staging: vt6656: dead code remove wmgr.c
The header will removed later

Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-26 20:23:30 -04:00
Malcolm Priestley ba801e23c0 staging: vt6656: deadcode iwctl.c/h
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-26 20:23:29 -04:00
Malcolm Priestley 62c8526d60 staging: vt6656: dead code remove control.c/h
Replace control.h headers with usbpipe.h

Also add to usbpipe.c its header

Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-26 10:36:50 -07:00
Malcolm Priestley 91e2f7f961 staging: vt6656: remove dead code tcrc.c/h
Functions are now dead and of no use.

Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-23 21:35:27 +09:00
Malcolm Priestley 2a4ee86f04 staging; vt6656: dead code aes_ccmp.
After dead code dpc hostapd remove aes.c/h

Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-19 15:23:21 -07:00
Malcolm Priestley a30d534bda staging: vt6656: Remove dead code hostap.
It is based on viawget, proprietary version of wpa supplicant.

The code is not compatible with the current version of hostapd.

It may be possible to implement when the driver is fully converted
to mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-19 15:23:20 -07:00
Malcolm Priestley 1aec87a561 staging: vt6656: dead code remove mib.c mic.h from driver.
As result of patch
staging: vt6656: Remove unused scStatistic data from driver.

mib.c mic.h is dead code

Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-17 13:09:09 -08:00
Malcolm Priestley 3b250c3861 staging: vt6656: dead code remove ioctl.c/h
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-11-26 16:24:16 -08:00
Tracey Dent 60930a0198 Staging: vt6656: Makefile: cleaned up Makefile cflag lines
Changed to use the proper ccflags-y option

Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-05 11:56:38 -07:00
Alexander Beregalov 14386fd10c Staging: vt665x: fix built-in compiling
Fix this build error:
undefined reference to "__this_module"

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:34 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman c07d3c75a7 Staging: vt665x: rename the module binary
So it doesn't conflict with a mainline kernel driver
currently under development.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:02:33 -07:00
Forest Bond 5d1fe0c98f Staging: vt6656: Integrate vt6656 into build system.
Integrate drivers/staging/vt6656 into build system.

Signed-off-by: Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:01:32 -07:00
Forest Bond 92b9679711 Staging: Add pristine upstream vt6656 driver sources to drivers/staging/vt6656.
Add pristine upstream vt6656 driver sources to drivers/staging/vt6656.  These
files were copied from the driver directory in the upstream source archive,
available here:

  http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/VT6656_Linux_src_v1.19_12_x86.zip

After copying, trailing whitespace was stripped.  This is GPL-licensed code.

Signed-off-by: Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 12:01:32 -07:00