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The header scan (Captain Bob, 2026-11-10): 788 source files -- 351 with the
SL-1.0 header, 12 with the old name (docs/working/experiments, kept by
ruling), 31 under someone else's licence (tools/kconfig, Linux's, GPL-2.0:
kept), and 394 with none. Ruled: the SPDX form; capsules (.4th, .f18) and
proofs (.thy) left for a ruling of their own (mkcapsule's 64x16 block format,
content-addressed capsules).
253 files now begin
SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Starship-1.0
Copyright (c) 2023-2026 Robert A. James
as a /* */ block (C, headers, assembly, linker scripts) or # lines (scripts,
Makefiles, Kconfig; below a shebang or a coding line); tools/mkcapsule.c,
which had the copyright line, gets the SPDX line only.
Not touched: docs/working/ (archive and old campaign material, as the
ruling kept the experiments); v4/system/post_cases.c (generated by
v4/tools/mkpost.py, "do not edit" -- the generator has the header).
Comments only: the kernel builds on amd64, aarch64, riscv64; make -C v4
test-32: 39 programs, 0 failures; every changed script parses.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2
tools/kconfig — vendored Linux kernel Kconfig tooling
What this is
This directory is a trimmed vendor drop of scripts/kconfig/ from the
Linux kernel (torvalds/linux, master at the time of vendoring). It
provides the Kconfig language engine and three front ends:
conf— headless config (config/oldconfig/defconfig/etc.)mconf— the ncursesmenuconfigTUI (useslxdialog/)qconf— the QtxconfigGUI
License — read this before touching anything in this directory
Every file here carries its own upstream SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
tag. The full license text is in LICENSE in this directory.
This is host-side build tooling only. conf/mconf/qconf run on the
machine building StarForth, read Kconfig/.config, and emit a generated
Make-syntax config fragment (build/$(ARCH)/include/config/auto.conf).
None of this code is compiled into, statically or dynamically linked into,
or otherwise shipped as part of the starforth binary or the
starkernel_loader.efi / kernel image — the same relationship StarForth
already has with gcc, bison, flex, and make themselves. StarForth's own
source is licensed under the Starship License 1.0 (see the repository
root LICENSE); that license does not apply to this directory, and this
directory's license does not apply to the rest of the repository.
See sbom.spdx / sbom.spdx.json for the formal SBOM entry.
What was trimmed from upstream
Kept: the core engine (parser.y, lexer.l, preprocess.c/h, symbol.c,
expr.c/h, menu.c, confdata.c, lkc.h, lkc_proto.h, internal.h,
util.c), conf.c, mconf.c + lxdialog/ + mconf-cfg.sh, qconf.cc +
qconf.h + qconf-cfg.sh.
Dropped: gconf.c/gconf.ui (GTK gconfig — not needed), nconf.c and
friends (nconfig — not needed), kconfig's own tests/ directory, and the
upstream Makefile (kept alongside as Makefile.upstream-reference for
comparison only — it isn't self-contained outside a full kernel source
tree, since it depends on scripts/Kbuild.include and
scripts/Makefile.host that aren't vendored here; this directory's real
Makefile is a small bespoke one written for StarForth specifically).
Updating this vendor drop
git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git
cd linux
git sparse-checkout set scripts/kconfig
then re-copy the files listed above.