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LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception

Copied from the Linux kernel COPYING file.

Add the required tags for reference and tooling.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note
··· 1 + SPDX-Exception-Identifier: Linux-syscall-note 2 + SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/Linux-syscall-note.html 3 + SPDX-Licenses: GPL-2.0, GPL-2.0+, GPL-1.0+, LGPL-2.0, LGPL-2.0+, LGPL-2.1, LGPL-2.1+ 4 + Usage-Guide: 5 + This exception is used together with one of the above SPDX-Licenses 6 + to mark user space API (uapi) header files so they can be included 7 + into non GPL compliant user space application code. 8 + To use this exception add it with the keyword WITH to one of the 9 + identifiers in the SPDX-Licenses tag: 10 + SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX-License> WITH Linux-syscall-note 11 + License-Text: 12 + 13 + NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel 14 + services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use 15 + of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". 16 + Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software 17 + Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux 18 + kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it. 19 + 20 + Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel 21 + is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not 22 + v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. 23 + 24 + Linus Torvalds 25 +