[PATCH 13/13] net: rtl8139: Fill in SPDX tag

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 00:03:59 CEST 2020


The rtl8139 driver is derived from Etherboot driver, which is in
turn derived from Linux 8139too driver added in Linux 2.2.18pre14.
An undocumented change in Linux 2.4.10.2 added a new field to the
driver, MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); . According to current Linux kernel
licensing rules, Documentation/process/license-rules.rst, quote:

	"GPL"	Module is licensed under GPL version 2. This
		does not express any distinction between
		GPL-2.0-only or GPL-2.0-or-later. The exact
		license information can only be determined
		via the license information in the
		corresponding source files.

And since the code does not contain any "future" clause, the tag
is therefore GPL-2.0 only.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas at gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
---
- Linux 2.2.18pre14
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/diff/drivers/net/8139too.c?h=2.2.18pre14
---
 drivers/net/rtl8139.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/rtl8139.c b/drivers/net/rtl8139.c
index 66591d03ce..1f08397291 100644
--- a/drivers/net/rtl8139.c
+++ b/drivers/net/rtl8139.c
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 /*
  * rtl8139.c : U-Boot driver for the RealTek RTL8139
  *
@@ -12,9 +13,6 @@
  * ported from the linux driver written by Donald Becker
  * by Rainer Bawidamann (Rainer.Bawidamann at informatik.uni-ulm.de) 1999
  *
- * This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
- * of the GNU Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
- *
  * changes to the original driver:
  * - removed support for interrupts, switching to polling mode (yuck!)
  * - removed support for the 8129 chip (external MII)
-- 
2.25.1



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