On 1/19/21 5:34 PM, Richard Palethorpe wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On 1/19/21 4:06 PM, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>>> /*
>>>>> - * tst-rcv-own-msgs.c
>>>>> - *
>>>>> - * Copyright (c) 2010 Volkswagen Group Electronic Research
>>>>> - * All rights reserved.
>>>>> - *
>>>>> - * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
>>>>> - * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
>>>>> - * are met:
>>>>> - * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
>>>>> - * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
>>>>> - * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>>>>> - * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
>>>>> - * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
>>>>> - * 3. Neither the name of Volkswagen nor the names of its contributors
>>>>> - * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
>>>>> - * without specific prior written permission.
>>>>
>>>> IANAL, I think you're missing this license. Is looks like some sort
>>>> of BSD to me.
>
> Ufff, thanks, I should pay more attention when it is a test imported
> from elsewhere.
>
>>>>
>>>>> - *
>>>>> - * Alternatively, provided that this notice is retained in full, this
>>>>> - * software may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
>>>>> - * Public License ("GPL") version 2, in which case the provisions of the
>>>>> - * GPL apply INSTEAD OF those given above.
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't say "or later".
>>>
>>> Looks like we cannot just remove this license. So what about moving this
>>> text into a separate COPYING file and changing the SPDX to GPL-v2.0?
>>
>> This file is dual licensed, better keep it dual licensed.
>>
>> regards,
>> Marc
>
> HHmm, this appears to be the BSD-3-Clause license with the following
> text inserted in the middle:
>
> * Alternatively, provided that this notice is retained in full, this
> * software may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
> * Public License ("GPL") version 2, in which case the provisions of the
> * GPL apply INSTEAD OF those given above.
> *
> * The provided data structures and external interfaces from this code
> * are not restricted to be used by modules with a GPL compatible license.
>
> I don't see any corresponding SPDX identifier or exception for this. It
> is probably easiest and safest just to keep it as-is.
I think the Linux kernel uses:
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR
BSD-3-Clause) */
e.g.:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.10/source/include/uapi/linux/can/gw.h
Marc
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