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From: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
To: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mcgrof@kernel.org,
	petr.pavlu@suse.com, da.gomez@kernel.org
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: modules: Add SPDX license identifier to kmod.c
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:00:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3beb5db7-efb8-4a68-b5fb-aa2aed2ac52f@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260116000431.643070-1-tim.bird@sony.com>



Le 16/01/2026 à 01:04, Tim Bird a écrit :
> [Vous ne recevez pas souvent de courriers de tim.bird@sony.com. Découvrez pourquoi ceci est important à https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ]
> 
> Add a GPL-2.0 license identifier line for this file.
> 
> kmod.c was originally introduced in the kernel in February
> of 1998 by Linus Torvalds - who was familiar with kernel
> licensing at the time this was introduced.

1998 ?

This file has Copyright (C) 2023 Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> 
added by commit 8660484ed1cf ("module: add debugging auto-load duplicate 
module support")

> 
> Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com>
> ---
>   kernel/module/kmod.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/module/kmod.c b/kernel/module/kmod.c
> index 25f253812512..a25dccdf7aa7 100644
> --- a/kernel/module/kmod.c
> +++ b/kernel/module/kmod.c
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>   /*
>    * kmod - the kernel module loader
>    *
> --
> 2.43.0
> 
> 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-01-16  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-16  0:04 [PATCH] kernel: modules: Add SPDX license identifier to kmod.c Tim Bird
2026-01-16  0:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-01-16  8:00 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) [this message]
2026-01-16 18:45   ` Bird, Tim

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