Hello,
This RFC follows up on the proposal from Mark Doran to change the
EDK II Project to an Apache 2.0 License.
https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2018-October/030385.html
** Please provide feedback on the proposal by Friday 12/7/18. **
I will be following up with pointers to public GitHub branches that
contain the initial set of changes in steps (1) and (2) below for
review.
The proposal is to perform this change to edk2/master in the steps listed
below. The license change will not be applied to any of the other existing
branches in the edk2 repository.
1) Change all files with a BSD 2-Clause license and only a single
copyright statement by Intel Corporation to an Apache 2.0 license
and add an SPDX-License-Identifier statement.
======================================================================
SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
======================================================================
2) Update Readme.md and License.txt in the root of the edk2 repository to
state that content is covered by a mix of BSD 2-Clause and Apache 2.0
licenses.
3) Update all documentation to state that content submitted under the
Apache 2.0 license no longer requires the Tianocore Contribution
Agreement which means the following line is not required in commit
messages for changes to files that are covered by an Apache 2.0 License.
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
4) Create Wiki page(s) that provide the details of the Apache 2.0 License
change and provide the status of the license change for each package
in the edk2 repository. Also provide a list of the additional copyright
holders that need to be contacted to accept the change to an Apache 2.0
License along with the status of that acceptance.
5) After all copyright holders have accepted the change to an Apache 2.0
License, change the remaining files from BSD 2-Clause to Apache 2.0.
6) Update Readme.md and License.txt in the edk2 repository to state that
Apache 2.0 is the preferred license for the EDK II project.
Best regards,
Mike
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