According to Linux COPYING file this exception is made to GPL v2. Signed-off-by: Denis Osterland-Heim <[email protected]> --- meta/files/common-licenses/Linux-syscall-note | 25 +++++++++++++++++++ meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc | 2 +- 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 meta/files/common-licenses/Linux-syscall-note
diff --git a/meta/files/common-licenses/Linux-syscall-note b/meta/files/common-licenses/Linux-syscall-note new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9abdad71fa --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/files/common-licenses/Linux-syscall-note @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +SPDX-Exception-Identifier: Linux-syscall-note +SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/Linux-syscall-note.html +SPDX-Licenses: GPL-2.0, GPL-2.0+, GPL-1.0+, LGPL-2.0, LGPL-2.0+, LGPL-2.1, LGPL-2.1+, GPL-2.0-only, GPL-2.0-or-later +Usage-Guide: + This exception is used together with one of the above SPDX-Licenses + to mark user space API (uapi) header files so they can be included + into non GPL compliant user space application code. + To use this exception add it with the keyword WITH to one of the + identifiers in the SPDX-Licenses tag: + SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX-License> WITH Linux-syscall-note +License-Text: + + NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel + services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use + of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". + Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software + Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux + kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it. + + Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel + is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not + v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. + + Linus Torvalds + diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc index 0132fcffb3..3de8318c39 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ SUMMARY = "Linux kernel" SECTION = "kernel" -LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only" +LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only + Linux-syscall-note" HOMEPAGE = "https://www.yoctoproject.org/"; LIC_FILES_CHKSUM ?= "file://COPYING;md5=d7810fab7487fb0aad327b76f1be7cd7" -- 2.45.2
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