License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

16 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-ac97.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-ac97.h
index b7563e9d65035..85c601898d022 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-ac97.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-ac97.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUnity AC97 Registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-dmac.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-dmac.h
index 66de9e7d1c8f8..bbdc52d06a98b 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-dmac.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-dmac.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUnity Direct Memory Access Controller (DMAC)
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-gpio.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-gpio.h
index 0273b861ef96f..806350e1ccb6f 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-gpio.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-gpio.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUnity General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) Registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-i2c.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-i2c.h
index 463d108f8bfb0..b41aa7c924305 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-i2c.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-i2c.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUnity Inter-integrated Circuit (I2C) Registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-intc.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-intc.h
index 25648f89cbd35..4eb1b5b571bb4 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-intc.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-intc.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUNITY Interrupt Controller (INTC) Registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-nand.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-nand.h
index a7c5563bb550c..7f29939251eff 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-nand.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-nand.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUnity NAND Controller Registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-ost.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-ost.h
index 4a85fb4638480..6c63e7b7569ed 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-ost.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-ost.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUnity Operating System Timer (OST) Registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-pci.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-pci.h
index 6a9341686bf82..25bb307b87c35 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-pci.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-pci.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUnity AHB-PCI Bridge Registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-pm.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-pm.h
index 854844aa8f4bf..777b1ace39b91 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-pm.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-pm.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUNITY Power Manager (PM) Registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-ps2.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-ps2.h
index 17d4e6dc00692..d539d74824621 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-ps2.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-ps2.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUnity PS2 Controller Registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-resetc.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-resetc.h
index 39900cf4c936d..5f2b9d77a9ecb 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-resetc.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-resetc.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUnity Reset Controller (RC) Registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-rtc.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-rtc.h
index e94ca193271d6..f2f7f47eb65e1 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-rtc.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-rtc.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUnity Real-Time Clock (RTC) control registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-sdc.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-sdc.h
index 1303ecf660ba9..658bfaf4cb3cf 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-sdc.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-sdc.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUnity Multi-Media Card and Security Digital Card (MMC/SD) Registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-spi.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-spi.h
index de16895e2dc0d..3460647a9c2ad 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-spi.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-spi.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUnity Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-umal.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-umal.h
index aa22df74e11d1..7023089c61c6f 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-umal.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-umal.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUnity Ultra Media Access Layer (UMAL) Ethernet MAC Registers
  */
diff --git a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-unigfx.h b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-unigfx.h
index faf8b287fccf3..553d1157c6b29 100644
--- a/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-unigfx.h
+++ b/arch/unicore32/include/mach/regs-unigfx.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 /*
  * PKUnity UNIGFX Registers
  */