diff --git a/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c b/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c
index b5737b8..f0d2433 100644
--- a/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c
+++ b/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c
@@ -1,18 +1,9 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 /* audit_fsnotify.c -- tracking inodes
  *
  * Copyright 2003-2009,2014-2015 Red Hat, Inc.
  * Copyright 2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
  * Copyright 2005 IBM Corporation
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
  */
 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c b/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
index c7471c3..fe9ca92 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
@@ -1,16 +1,7 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 /*
  * Queued read/write locks
  *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
  * (C) Copyright 2013-2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
  *
  * Authors: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
index e14b32c..2473f10 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
@@ -1,16 +1,7 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 /*
  * Queued spinlock
  *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
  * (C) Copyright 2013-2015 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
  * (C) Copyright 2013-2014,2018 Red Hat, Inc.
  * (C) Copyright 2015 Intel Corp.
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_stat.h b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_stat.h
index 5415267..e625bb4 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_stat.h
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_stat.h
@@ -1,13 +1,5 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
 /*
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
  *
  * Authors: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
  */
diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
index 3cd8a3a..aa8d758 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
@@ -1,17 +1,8 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 /*
  * Copyright (C) 2010-2017 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
  *
  * membarrier system call
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
  */
 #include "sched.h"
 
diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
index 5f852b8..13a0f2e 100644
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -1,19 +1,9 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 /*
  * taskstats.c - Export per-task statistics to userland
  *
  * Copyright (C) Shailabh Nagar, IBM Corp. 2006
  *           (C) Balbir Singh,   IBM Corp. 2006
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
  */
 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
diff --git a/kernel/tsacct.c b/kernel/tsacct.c
index 370724b..7be3e75 100644
--- a/kernel/tsacct.c
+++ b/kernel/tsacct.c
@@ -1,19 +1,8 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 /*
  * tsacct.c - System accounting over taskstats interface
  *
  * Copyright (C) Jay Lan,	<jlan@sgi.com>
- *
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
  */
 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>