YES!!!! Yes, yes, yes. Thank you for being the trail blazer :) We have talked about this idea quite a bit. I'm posting to the Legal Team as well, in case some are not also on the General list.
Jilayne Lovejoy SPDX Legal Team | Co-lead OpenLogic, Inc. | Corporate Counsel jlove...@openlogic.com On 7/26/13 7:20 AM, "Wolfgang Denk" <w...@denx.de> wrote: >Dear Roger, > >In message <045001ce89f0$e6805710$b3810530$@bufferoverflow.ch> you wrote: >> >> I had a discussion with U-Boot Creator and Core Developer Wolfgang Denk. >> He made some patches, they were accepted and the result is this header: >> # (C) Copyright 2000-2013 >> # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, w...@denx.de. >> # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ > >Thanks (again) for poinin me in this direction. I really like the >idea of consistent, automatically parsable Unique License Identifiers. > >> and a Licenses folder with a README, Exception and the Licenses: >> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=tree;f=Licenses;hb=HEAD >> >> see also mailing list details here: >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/165416 >> or this web site: http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Licensing >> >> It is not applied to all files of U-Boot. However, more than 5760 files >> already use this new header. > >I would like to point out that this is just a "not yet"; this is still >work in progress - unfortunately the conversion requires careful >inspection and manual operation for a significant part of the files. >But then, this just makes all the more clear how urgently such an >improvement was needed. > >> a very resourceful way to simplify the license topic and an important >>step >> towards adoption of SPDX >> usage within projects and SPDX files provided with OSS releases. > >The most interesting thing now is to watch if other projects pick up >the idea... > >Best regards, > >Wolfgang Denk > >-- >DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel >HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany >Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de >Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. >_______________________________________________ >Spdx mailing list >s...@lists.spdx.org >https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
