I think this is a great idea. My only question is that some of our code has a slightly extended BSD license. In particular I'm thinking about code ARM is involved in (E.g. : https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5/+/refs/heads/develop/src/arch/arm/decoder.cc ). Is the solution here something like?:
``` Copyright (c) 2012-2014,2018 ARM Limited All rights reserved The license below extends only to copyright in the software and shall not be construed as granting a license to any other intellectual property including but not limited to intellectual property relating to a hardware implementation of the functionality of the software licensed hereunder. You may use the software subject to the license terms below provided that you ensure that this notice is replicated unmodified and in its entirety in all distributions of the software, modified or unmodified, in source code or in binary form. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause ``` Software copyrights, patents, licencing, etc have always confused the heck out of me, so sorry if it's a newbie question :). -- Dr. Bobby R. Bruce Room 2235, Kemper Hall, UC Davis Davis, CA, 95616 web: https://www.bobbybruce.net On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 4:49 PM Jason Lowe-Power <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I propose to replace all of the BSD text in the headers of all files with > the following: > > /* > * Copyright (c) <whatever copyright is required. E.g., The Regents of the > University of California.> > * All rights reserved. > * > * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause > */ > > We will also update the LICENSE file to say the following: > > ``` > Note: Individual files contain the following tag instead of the full > license text. > > SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause > > This enables machine processing of license information based on the SPDX > License Identifiers that are here available: http://spdx.org/licenses/ > ``` > > See https://spdx.org/ids-how for more information about SPDX license IDs. > > Before we go through and make a giant changeset (or changesets) to do this, > I'd like to make sure this is something that will work for the community. > > Let me know what you think! > > Cheers, > Jason > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
