Remove the extra copy of the GPL license and license copyright headers
from CONTRIBUTING and the top-level COPYING.
Mention of the LICENSES/ directory and also mention the SPDX tag.
SPDX support is still in progress and COPYING files in subdirectories
still need to be updated.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
This patch makes a few clarifications which were discussed on
IRC recently.
Specifically:
- Highlight the principle that license deviations
should be brought to the attention of maintainers
- Add a requirement for GPLv2 compatibility
- Restructure the document to highlight use-cases for
"New components" and "Importing code" clearer
- Add conventions and instructions for "New files"
Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
COPYING file:
The motivation of this change is to make it easier for new
contributors to conduct a license and patent review, WITHOUT
changing any licenses.
- Remove references to BSD-style licenses as we have more
common license exceptions and replace with "other license
stanzas"
- List the most common situations under which code is licensed
under licenses other than GPLv2 (section "Licensing Exceptions")
- List the most common non-GPLv2 licenses that are in use in
this repository based on a recent FOSSology scan (section
"Licensing Exceptions")
- List other license related conventions within the project
to make it easier to conduct a license review.
- Clarify the incoming license as its omission has confused
past contributors (section "Contributions")
CONTRIBUTION file:
The motivation of this file is to make it easier for contributors
to find contribution related resources. Add information on existing
license related conventions to avoid unintentional future licensing
issues. Provide templates for copyright headers for the most commonly
used licenses in this repository.
Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Stefano Stabellini