[7/7] LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception

Commit Message

Thomas Gleixner Nov. 12, 2017, 7:18 p.m. UTC

Copied from the Linux kernel COPYING file.

Add the required tags for reference and tooling.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Greg KH <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[e-mail]>

---
 LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)



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Patch

--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ 
+SPDX-Exception-Identifier: Linux-syscall-note
+LICENSE-URL: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/COPYING
+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+
+
+
+   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
+