On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 06:39:28PM +0000, Kinney, Michael D wrote: > 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. **
7 December 2018 to anyone outside the US :) > 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. Presumably this also applies to files _added_ with an Apache 2.0 License? (If so, the above could benefit from minor rewording.) > 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. >From Linaro's side, we have no concern beyond that we'd like to hear ARM's opinion. (Adding cc.) Regards, Leif _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
