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 Best regards, Mike > -----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
