Hello, How can we progress on the inclusion of my EFI_SMART_CARD_READER_PROTOCOL proposal in EDK2?
Is the GNU LGPL v2.1+ license really not possible in EDK2 and I should just forget about integrating my code in EDK2? The point 5 of Code Contributions [1] says: " 5. It is preferred that contributions are submitted using the same copyright license as the base project. When that is not possible, then contributions using the following licenses can be accepted: * BSD (2-clause): http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause * BSD (3-clause): http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause * MIT: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT * Python-2.0: http://opensource.org/licenses/Python-2.0 * Zlib: http://opensource.org/licenses/Zlib Contributions of code put into the public domain can also be accepted. Contributions using other licenses might be accepted, but further review will be required. " It is not clear that GNU LGPL is forbidden. Do I need to wait that " further review " is made by whoever is in charge? [1] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/MdeModulePkg/Contributions.txt 2015-06-11 15:31 GMT+02:00 Blibbet <blib...@gmail.com>: >> BSD is a GPL compatible licence. >> GPL is NOT a BSD compatible licence. > > Where is the requirement that all OEMs must only include BSD code in > their firmware? Why not let Puri.sm or Novena have a downstream UEFI > firmware volume that is GPL, will the world end or something? Today, > there is some non-BSD code needed to boot Linux on UEFI. Linux OSVs > probably don't have the same fear of GPL that closed-source OS vendors > do. You're free to ignore that code and focus on the license subset you > prefer. > >>> What about a Tiano way to distribute [L]GPL code, safely separate from >>> main BSD branch, like FAT driver is dealt with, so GPL-friendly >>> OSVs/ISVs/OEMs -- everyone but Microsoft? :-) -- can safely use GPL >>> code? Perhaps other non-BSD, OSI-approved FOSS licensed, and no others? >>> >> >> As you point out we solve issues with licensing by splitting git repos >> and having separate projects. That is probably a separate conversation >> from what goes in the edk2 project. > > I thought the conversation was to deal with this current code > contribution, not just focus on EDK2 subproject. > > What about using TianoCore's EDK2share for non-BSD projects? That code > isn't bundled into UDK releases. If contributor can relicense to BSD > great, but if not, dropping code is rude, a non-BSD friendly area > outside main EDK2 project, somewhere on Tiano, would be better than > dropping the code, I'd think. I am not familiar with EDK2share. Hosting "non-free-enough" source code in a EDK2 side project could also be a possibility. My code is available in the SmartCard branch or my edk2 fork at https://github.com/LudovicRousseau/edk2/tree/SmartCard But is it not really easy to find and use. Regards, -- Dr. Ludovic Rousseau ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
