On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 03:18:23AM +0100, Roland Hieber wrote: > Now that we are moving away from boilerplate code towards SPDX license > tags in individual file headers, we should have a short note about what > these tags mean. Also, until now, there was effectively no explicit > information that barebox is licensed under GPLv2 (only). This could have > been interpolated from the existence of a GPLv2 text in ./COPYING (and > from most of the individual file headers… have fun reading all of them), > but a warranty and copyright notice was still missing. Add those as a > catch-all for the project to ease application of GPLv2 article 0: > > 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains > a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed > under the terms of this General Public License. […] > > and article 1: > > 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's > source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you > conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate > copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; […] > > Since barebox goes back to U-Boot, I tried to find explicit project-wide > copyright lines, but the only one I could find was the one from U-Boot's > old README in commit 7e149c897b95b40752. If there are additional > copyright holders, those are probably only present in the respective > file headers. > > Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > README | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) Applied, thanks Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
