On 03/23/19 01:44, Kinney, Michael D wrote: > Hi Laszlo, > > I have entered the following BZ for SPDX identifiers for > MIT licensed content in OvmfPkg. > > https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1654
Thank you! Laszlo >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:ler...@redhat.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:10 AM >> To: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com>; Julien Grall >> <julien.gr...@arm.com>; Kinney, Michael D >> <michael.d.kin...@intel.com> >> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Ard Biesheuvel >> <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>; Justen, Jordan L >> <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>; Anthony Perard >> <anthony.per...@citrix.com>; Marc-André Lureau >> <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com>; Stefan Berger >> <stef...@linux.ibm.com> >> Subject: Re: [edk2] PATCH] Change EDK II to BSD+Patent >> License >> >> On 03/15/19 18:48, Lars Kurth wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 15/03/2019, 10:18, "Julien Grall" >> <julien.gr...@arm.com> wrote: >>> >>> > >>> > EDK2 is converting the full copyright in >> each file to SDPX identifier. While the >>> > copyright looks like an MIT license, it has >> never been confirmed. Andrew Cooper >>> > suggested you might be able to confirm. >>> > >>> > Is there a web-link to the files/repos such that >> I don’t have to clone the repo >>> > Lars >>> >>> Here an example of files from Xen public headers: >>> >>> >> https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=tree;f=xen/in >> clude/public;h=0618b0134d2b9babcba71a3f0f86be5a84468b50;h >> b=HEAD >>> >>> OK, this makes this easy then. Because in all >> likelihood, the files were copied from xen/include/public >> and then the COPYING file >> https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=xen/in >> clude/public/COPYING applies, which states that >> everything in this directory is MIT, unless stated >> otherwise in the file. >>> >>> So as long as someone confirms that the files in >> OvmfPkg/Include came from xen/include/public, this is a >> clear case of a MIT license >>> If they are files from other directories in Xen, check >> the COPYING file in the original directory (or if there >> is none in the parent directory) and check the COPYING >> file >>> >>> I am not so clear about where the files in XenBusDxe >> came from, but the same principle applies. >>> >>> If someone groups these files by "original directory in >> Xen" to File ... I am happy to do a final sanity check >> and sign it off and/or deal with any unclear cases >> >> Replacing MIT license blocks with SPDX identifiers is >> something we >> should do later -- I think it's out of scope for Mike's >> current patch >> series, it's just something I noticed and pointed out for >> the future, >> while I was verifying the "license block -> SPDX ID" >> replacements for >> 2-BSDL (i.e., *not* MIT). >> >> Mike mentioned that he was going to file a number of >> TianoCore BZs as a >> result of the discussion in this thread. Mike, can you >> please file one >> for the MIT->SPDX "refactoring" (under OvmfPkg) as well? >> If not, I can >> file it myself later, I just wouldn't like us to end up >> with duplicates. >> >> Once we have that separate BZ, we can discuss it in >> isolation. >> >> Thanks >> Laszlo _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
