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
