kernel/LICENSES/deprecated, branch 0x221E-v0.0.1-v6.19

LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2

2025-07-24T09:15:39Z

The FSF does not reside in the Franklin street anymore. Let's update the address with the link to their website, as suggested in the latest revisions of their GFDL-1.2 license: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.txt Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.1

2025-07-24T09:15:39Z

The FSF does not reside in the Franklin street anymore. Let's update the address with the link to their website, as suggested in the latest revisions of their GFDL-1.1 license: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.1.txt Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GPL-1.0

2025-07-24T09:15:39Z

The FSF does not reside in the Mass Ave anymore. Let's update the address with the link to their website, as suggested in the latest revisions of their GPL-1.0 license: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.txt Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

LICENSES: add CC0-1.0 license text

2025-05-21T12:54:17Z

Commit cbbd847d107f ("tools/x86/kcpuid: Introduce a complete cpuid bitfields CSV file") turns the tools/arch/x86/kcpuid/cpuid.csv to be an auto-generated file from an input file maintained at x86-cpuid.org project. The x86-cpuid.org project clearly states that the auto-generated file is to be licensed with CC0-1.0 (see Link below). So, the SPDX-License-Identifier CC0-1.0 in the file is correct as intended. The spdxcheck.py script reports that tools/arch/x86/kcpuid/cpuid.csv uses an Invalid License ID: CC0-1.0, though, as the LICENSES directory in the kernel tree does not contain a file with license information for CC0-1.0. Add a suitable CC0-1.0 file with the license text into LICENSES/deprecated to make spdxcheck.py happy. The directory deprecated is the best fit, by exclusion of the alternatives. CC0-1.0 should not be considered among the preferred licenses in the kernel, nor is it a license exception case or intended for dual-licensing some copyrighted material. So, deprecated is the best fit here, even if the license and its use is fine and it does not suggest to actually deprecate use of this license. The license text for the CC0-1.0 file was obtained from the spdx license-list-data git repository (see Link below). Link: https://gitlab.com/x86-cpuid.org/x86-cpuid-db/-/blob/v2.4/LICENSE.rst Link: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/blob/main/text/CC0-1.0.txt Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

LICENSES: add 0BSD license text

2024-09-02T03:43:24Z

The license text was copied from: https://spdx.org/licenses/0BSD.html Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240721133633.47721-3-lasse.collin@tukaani.org Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin Reviewed-by: Sam James Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Emil Renner Berthing Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: Joel Stanley Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Jubin Zhong Cc: Jules Maselbas Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Rui Li Cc: Simon Glass Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text

2020-09-16T12:33:49Z

The new files contributed to zlib have Zlib SPDX license identifier. Since there was no Zlib license text in LICENSES, scripts/spdxcheck.py reported the following errors: lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: Zlib lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc.h: 1:28 Invalid License ID: Zlib lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc_deflate.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: Zlib lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc_inflate.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: Zlib lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc_util.h: 1:28 Invalid License ID: Zlib The patch adds Zlib SPDX license to LICENSES/deprecated, thus resolving the issues reported by spdxcheck. Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

LICENSE: add GFDL deprecated licenses

2020-09-16T12:33:13Z

There are some files under Documentation which uses deprecated versions of GNU Free Documentation License, on both versions 1.1 and 1.2. On all cases, the license is with no Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts. Add the text file for them, as we'll start using SPDX for those. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated

2019-05-03T12:34:32Z

Make it clear in the directory name that these are not intended for new code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet