Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> writes: > From: Andrea Kao <[email protected]> > > GitHub uses a library called Licensee to identify a project's license > type. It shows this information in the status bar and via the API if it > can unambiguously identify the license. > > This commit creates a LICENSE file that stores the full text of the > Apache license. It also removes the COPYING file and transfers its > contents to a new "License" section in the README. > > Collectively, these changes allow Licensee to successfully identify the > license type of Open vSwitch's codebase as Apache. > > Submitted-at: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/pull/224 > Signed-off-by: Andrea Kao <[email protected]> > [[email protected] removed references to COPYING and updated Makefile.am] > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> > ---
According to the Licensee[1] code, it should be good enough to put the exact text of the Apache 2.0 license into the COPYING file. Then again COPYING is a GNU-ism, afaik. So either way: Acked-by: Aaron Conole <[email protected]> As a side note, as I start editing files, I'll add SPDX identifiers if others think it makes sense. [1]: https://github.com/benbalter/licensee/blob/master/lib/licensee/project_files/license_file.rb _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
