From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2CD051EFF96; Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:38:45 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1752219527; cv=none; b=XdyW57KrrfqoUwHb7eumInfy9sLXWGjIwz6dfKqA+3wdyvdDA4PnTjxd/uSDsyApSIl9c4SaY7sVjnMCcR1zuGBz3zAuVhRcuw0zIyxeM+QFnTrNBz+sTC5w7GzUynNWtA82yeX4VLud14pdMoY/MUt2FAUbPn/nyNlVTH6MOLs= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1752219527; c=relaxed/simple; bh=qBfAnNPFlJIvLFh79dRJlYctXmYnodTHUO9RBCiagGg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=IY+TFrAzf/YarVaBImfT6s1OfFSkGH/9FBrTnSMTtmL0A8FaqBB5X2iq+c96GPv5g+/3C3juSrn9KnO/iwgs7WpU1L1nXIC09kD2dL8r532H1GaHUjp0sKuBRJYZ9HMkdA7ReDa5xNQM3WbCj0r2CcEznVUsoNQzyOk2358AQX0= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=Oi1lj1Ye; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="Oi1lj1Ye" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 586CEC4CEED; Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:38:45 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1752219525; bh=qBfAnNPFlJIvLFh79dRJlYctXmYnodTHUO9RBCiagGg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=Oi1lj1Ye9Z7o1T1LwRuh0e+RHwXKmqPAc4qr087+696O6Zj6YB6UOvtzxC0Zk9RuD b9wNyNfKdZIjrzeede/wPlhZDESnY9L7s0blVMHCWovinGzz+NRXB11J2ybr70uBZc 2IlZ+lst1GVXs5DJsu/yk2pY/6D0fTDbSGKrmNYU= Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:38:43 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Thomas Huth , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Thomas Gleixner , Nicholas Piggin , Christophe Leroy , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF Message-ID: <2025071119-important-convene-ab85@gregkh> References: <20250711053509.194751-1-thuth@redhat.com> <2025071125-talon-clammy-4971@gregkh> <9f7242e8-1082-4a5d-bb6e-a80106d1b1f9@redhat.com> <2025071152-name-spoon-88e8@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 12:32:57AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 09:30:31AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > That's a crazy exception, and one that should probably be talked about > > with the FSF to determine exactly what the SPDX lines should be. > > It is called the libgcc exception and has been around forever for the > files in libgcc.a that a lot of these low-level kernel helpers were > copied from as the kernel doesn't link libgcc. Ah, so it would be something like this exception: https://spdx.org/licenses/GCC-exception-2.0.html but the wording doesn't seem to match. I'll let the license lawyers figure this out, thanks for the hint! greg k-h