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Lars Kurth 26ea2cce0d Remove ambiguities in the COPYING file; add CONTRIBUTING file
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>
2016-09-09 08:34:04 +01:00
Ian Campbell 443701ef0c Replace FSF street address with canonical URL
As recommended in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html.

This is the result of:
$ git grep -El Mass\|Temple\|Franklin | xargs ./fsf.pl

Where fsf.pl is:
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w -pi.bak -0777
    my $repl = 'If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.';
    my $br = qr/(?:\s*\n\s*(?:[\*\#]|\/\/|\.\\" )?\s*|\s+)/;

    my $inwt = qr/[Ii]f${br}not,${br}write${br}(?:to${br})?the${br}Free${br}Software${br}Foundation,(?:${br}Inc\.,)?/;

    my $mass = qr/675${br}Mass${br}Ave,?${br}Cambridge,?${br}MA${br}02139,?${br}USA,?\.?/;
    my $franklin = qr/51${br}Franklin${br}St(?:reet)?(?:,${br}| - )Fifth${br}Floor,?${br}Boston,?${br}MA,?${br}02110-1301,?${br}USA,?\.?/;
    my $temple = qr/59${br}Temple${br}Place(?:,${br}| - )Suite${br}330,?${br}Boston,?${br}MA,?${br}021110?-1307,?${br}USA,?\.?/;

    s|$inwt$br$mass|$repl|m;
    s|$inwt$br$franklin|$repl|m;
    s|$inwt$br$temple|$repl|m;

The only remaining mentions of these addresses are in COPYING files which I
haven't touched.

Some of the changed files are imports from elsewhere, however
filtering them out is tricky, I think it is tolerable to have these
files be modified here and then perhaps reverted on the next sync,
since it's only 1-2 lines and obvious what is going on.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
2015-07-29 11:14:07 +01:00
Keir Fraser fccd8d300d COPYING: Add discussion about GPL compatibility of Modified BSD licenses.
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
2011-03-24 11:09:02 +00:00
Keir Fraser 3cc3cacd42 Remove bogus link from COPYING file.
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
2009-06-16 11:11:59 +01:00
Keir Fraser 83fd7b933e minios: Introduce BSD license COPYING file
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
2009-06-04 10:35:03 +01:00
Ian Campbell c58e445d1c Remove sparse tree.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com>
2007-06-04 11:16:19 +01:00
kaf24@freefall.cl.cam.ac.uk 908871cf62 bitkeeper revision 1.1159.142.4 (4184b6d4rc3Jd2irJimPyupm4TO06A)
Rename Xen public interfaces.
 1. hypervisor-if.h is now xen.h
 2. hypervisor-ifs/ directory is now:
     <include/public/...> in Xen
     <asm/xen-public/...> in Linux
     <xen/...> in user space
2004-10-31 09:56:36 +00:00
kaf24@freefall.cl.cam.ac.uk a4a6924e7c bitkeeper revision 1.1159.126.1 (4177dbc0a3cRDV2S_YVRjp33pMQxuw)
Change licensing terms of certain files in the Linux source tree, and
clarify licensing terms with a new COPYING file at the root of the
repository.
2004-10-21 15:54:40 +00:00