Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 23.128.96.18 as permitted sender) client-ip=23.128.96.18;
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <7b314145-cbb9-b491-ccf5-d6021a574339@windriver.com>
In-Reply-To: <7b314145-cbb9-b491-ccf5-d6021a574339@windriver.com>
From:   Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 15 Jul 2021 23:28:33 -0700
Message-ID: <CAEdQ38Ht+WfROb1nvQBJaMjn49d98NYpEa6idAaWNMVJ8V-PFg@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Concern about arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c
To:     He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
Cc:     Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
        linux-alpha <linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Precedence: bulk

On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 1:31 AM He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com> wrote:
>
> Hello maintainers,
>
> 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.
> "
>
> Does this conflict with GPLv2? Anything else we need to know when using this as opensource software?

Unless you're using a DEC Alpha CPU, you're not using this code.