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| author | Jonny Svärd <jonny.svaerd@arm.com> | 2023-11-20 16:41:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonny Svärd <jonny.svaerd@arm.com> | 2023-11-20 17:16:19 +0100 |
| commit | 5087ba6f9821cae6e5a2843b33368771adfa687d (patch) | |
| tree | 317db40a74472dd8f767852d656ef5ecda2808e9 | |
| parent | 47e9bd01149a193fd9e69af194d00bfd8d1308a5 (diff) | |
| download | ethos-u-linux-driver-stack-5087ba6f9821cae6e5a2843b33368771adfa687d.tar.gz | |
Add mention of UAPI being licensed with 'WITH Linux-syscall-note'
exception to the README
Add the Linux-syscall-note.txt license exception file
Change-Id: I8f72d03fb87c8c00cbd75642b6407055e48a4021
Signed-off-by: Jonny Svärd <jonny.svaerd@arm.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Linux-syscall-note.txt | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 4 |
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Linux-syscall-note.txt b/Linux-syscall-note.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..adbe756 --- /dev/null +++ b/Linux-syscall-note.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +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 @@ -326,6 +326,10 @@ components are provided under an Apache 2.0 license. Please see [LICENSE-APACHE-2.0.txt](LICENSE-APACHE-2.0.txt) and [LICENSE-GPL-2.0.txt](LICENSE-GPL-2.0.txt) for more information. +The [Userspace API (UAPI)](kernel/uapi/ethosu.h) has a +'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception to the license. Please see +[Linux-syscall-note](Linux-syscall-note.txt) for more information. + # Contributions The Arm Ethos-U project welcomes contributions under the Apache-2.0 license. |