On 11/2/19 09:00, Sascha Hauer wrote: > 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' That last ack should've been a grep. Will fix in v2. >> >> 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. I can send out a v2 without the exception. Everything else is ok? > > 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
