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SubjectSPDX: Appletalk FW license in the kernel
Hey davem,

There has been a request in Fedora to confirm that the License field of
all the RPMs is correct [1]. We've made some recent changes to the
Fedora kernel [2] to correct the License field [3]. This License field
reflects the license of the *source* code and does not reflect the
license of the final binaries.

During our investigation we discovered two files in the kernel

drivers/net/appletalk/cops_ffdrv.h
drivers/net/appletalk/cops_ltdrv.h

which from their descriptions imply that the code contained is not GPL,
and seem to be in conflict of the kernel's overall license GPLv2.

To be clear, I am not asking for their removal, however, I do think a
better license should be issued for these files. The files were
trivially modified in 2006. It could be that the code in question is now
unused and it is just easier to remove them.

Is there anyone you know of that we could approach to determine a proper
SPDX License for these files?

P.

[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/update-existing-packages/

[2] https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2648

[3] License: ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)
AND ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) AND
((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR CDDL-1.0) AND ((GPL-2.0-only
WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR Linux-OpenIB) AND ((GPL-2.0-only WITH
Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) AND ((GPL-2.0-or-later WITH
Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) AND ((GPL-2.0-or-later WITH
Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND
BSD-3-Clause-Clear AND GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later AND
GPL-1.0-or-later AND (GPL-1.0-or-later OR BSD-3-Clause) AND
(GPL-1.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND GPL-2.0-only AND
(GPL-2.0-only OR Apache-2.0) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause) AND
(GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-3-Clause) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR CDDL-1.0) AND
(GPL-2.0-only OR GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR
GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-only) AND (GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note)
AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND (GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause) AND
(GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-3-Clause) AND (GPL-2.0-or-later OR CC-BY-4.0)
AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0) AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH
Linux-syscall-note) AND ISC AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND (LGPL-2.0-or-later
OR BSD-2-Clause) AND (LGPL-2.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND
LGPL-2.1-only AND (LGPL-2.1-only OR BSD-2-Clause) AND (LGPL-2.1-only
WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND (LGPL-2.1-or-later
WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND (Linux-OpenIB OR GPL-2.0-only) AND
(Linux-OpenIB OR GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause) AND
Linux-man-pages-copyleft AND MIT AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND (MIT OR
GPL-2.0-only) AND (MIT OR GPL-2.0-or-later) AND (MIT OR LGPL-2.1-only)
AND (MPL-1.1 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (X11 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (X11 OR
GPL-2.0-or-later) AND Zlib AND (copyleft-next-0.3.1 OR GPL-2.0-or-later)

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