Great point. I had forgotten about that exception. The ARM lawyers are looking into this now :).
Cheers, Jason On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 5:52 PM Bobby Bruce <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
