On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 03:58:03PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote: > At the moment > grep -R --exclude-dir=build --exclude-dir=.git -P 'SPDX-License-Identifier:' | ack -v 'GPL-2.0' > > shows me 39 non-dually-licensed source code files (SoCFPGA) that have a > BSD-3-Clause license _identifier_. > There seems to be no barebox BSD-3-Clause license _text_ however, > which runs afoul of the first clause of the license. > > To account for this and future contributions which are licensed under > non-GPL-2.0-but-compatible licenses, create a new LICENSES directory > like the one Linux has, where licenses are located. > > The barebox jumptable exception was imported from U-Boot and mangled > by a mass search and replace in a3ffa97f4. A rephrased version > of this exception has the SPDX-License-Identifier: u-boot-exception-2.0 > which I suggest to adopt for barebox as well by referencing it > in the COPYING file (with a note about the original project name, > so it's understood what's meant by u-boot in the exception text). Nice. Thanks for working on this. > diff --git a/LICENSES/exceptions/u-boot-exception-2.0 b/LICENSES/exceptions/u-boot-exception-2.0 > new file mode 100644 > index 000000000000..c9b3cd981f51 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/LICENSES/exceptions/u-boot-exception-2.0 > @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ > + > +GPL License Exception: > + > +Even though U-Boot in general is covered by the GPL-2.0/GPL-2.0+, > +this does *not* cover the so-called "standalone" applications that > +use U-Boot services by means of the jump table provided by U-Boot > +exactly for this purpose - this is merely considered normal use of > +U-Boot, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". > + > + The header files "include/image.h" and "arch/*/include/asm/u-boot.h" > +define interfaces to U-Boot. Including these (unmodified) header > +files in another file is considered normal use of U-Boot, and does > +*not* fall under the heading of "derived work". I don't think we need this. barebox doesn't have (and never had since the fork from U-Boot) these standalone applications. There is no jumptable in barebox. What we do have is modules support, but these are not covered by this text. 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
