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LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception
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Copied from the Linux kernel COPYING file.

Add the required tags for reference and tooling.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
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KAGA-KOKO authored and Jonathan Corbet committed Jan 6, 2018
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SPDX-Exception-Identifier: Linux-syscall-note
SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/Linux-syscall-note.html
SPDX-Licenses: GPL-2.0, GPL-2.0+, GPL-1.0+, LGPL-2.0, LGPL-2.0+, LGPL-2.1, LGPL-2.1+
Usage-Guide:
This exception is used together with one of the above SPDX-Licenses
to mark user space API (uapi) header files so they can be included
into non GPL compliant user space application code.
To use this exception add it with the keyword WITH to one of the
identifiers in the SPDX-Licenses tag:
SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX-License> WITH Linux-syscall-note
License-Text:

NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux
kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.

Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel
is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not
v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.

Linus Torvalds

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