diff --git a/scripts/asn1_compiler.c b/scripts/asn1_compiler.c
index c146020..adabd41 100644
--- a/scripts/asn1_compiler.c
+++ b/scripts/asn1_compiler.c
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 /* Simplified ASN.1 notation parser
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
  * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence
- * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
- * 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
  */
 
 #include <stdarg.h>
@@ -413,7 +409,7 @@
 
 			/* Handle string tokens */
 			if (isalpha(*p)) {
-				const char **dir, *start = p;
+				const char **dir;
 
 				/* Can be a directive, type name or element
 				 * name.  Find the end of the name.