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1*e00a844aSThomas GleixnerSPDX-Exception-Identifier: Linux-syscall-note
2*e00a844aSThomas GleixnerSPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/Linux-syscall-note.html
3*e00a844aSThomas GleixnerSPDX-Licenses: GPL-2.0, GPL-2.0+, GPL-1.0+, LGPL-2.0, LGPL-2.0+, LGPL-2.1, LGPL-2.1+
4*e00a844aSThomas GleixnerUsage-Guide:
5*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner  This exception is used together with one of the above SPDX-Licenses
6*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner  to mark user space API (uapi) header files so they can be included
7*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner  into non GPL compliant user space application code.
8*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner  To use this exception add it with the keyword WITH to one of the
9*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner  identifiers in the SPDX-Licenses tag:
10*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner    SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX-License> WITH Linux-syscall-note
11*e00a844aSThomas GleixnerLicense-Text:
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13*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
14*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
15*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
16*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
17*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux
18*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.
19*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner
20*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel
21*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not
22*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
23*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner
24*e00a844aSThomas Gleixner			Linus Torvalds
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