Thanks, Ben and Aaron. And Aaron, you're right - I agree it should've been good enough to put the exact text of the Apache license into the COPYING file. In any case, it looks like Licensee has finally been satisfied.
2018-04-16 13:02 GMT-07:00 Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 03:04:11PM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote: > > 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. > > Ack on that. I'm surprised when I see a file named COPYING that does > not contain GPLv2 or v3. > > > So either way: > > > > Acked-by: Aaron Conole <[email protected]> > > Thanks. I applied this to master. > > > As a side note, as I start editing files, I'll add SPDX identifiers if > > others think it makes sense. > > Sure, thanks. > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
