Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] LICENSES: adopt Linux-like LICENSES directory structure

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On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 03:16:46PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> At the moment
>   grep -r --exclude-dir=.git 'SPDX-License-Identifier:' | \
>     grep -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.
> 
> This also removes the jumptable exception inherited from U-Boot:
> 
>   > On 11/2/19 09:00, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>   >> I don't think we need this [exception]. 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.
> 
> The LICENSES/exceptions directory is therefore empty as well as
> the LICENSES/other directory, which might house new licenses in future.
> They are added along this commit however, because upstream
> checkpatch.pl introduced with a later commit depends on their
> existence.
> 
> Fixes: a3ffa97f4 ("rename U-Boot-v2 project to barebox")
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Applied (only this one) for now.

Sascha


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