From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] README: add licensing information
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 12:05:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190103110527.bc7othajlohs6mqq@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181230021823.7412-1-rhi@pengutronix.de>
On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 03:18:23AM +0100, Roland Hieber wrote:
> Now that we are moving away from boilerplate code towards SPDX license
> tags in individual file headers, we should have a short note about what
> these tags mean. Also, until now, there was effectively no explicit
> information that barebox is licensed under GPLv2 (only). This could have
> been interpolated from the existence of a GPLv2 text in ./COPYING (and
> from most of the individual file headers… have fun reading all of them),
> but a warranty and copyright notice was still missing. Add those as a
> catch-all for the project to ease application of GPLv2 article 0:
>
> 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
> a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
> under the terms of this General Public License. […]
>
> and article 1:
>
> 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
> source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
> conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
> copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; […]
>
> Since barebox goes back to U-Boot, I tried to find explicit project-wide
> copyright lines, but the only one I could find was the one from U-Boot's
> old README in commit 7e149c897b95b40752. If there are additional
> copyright holders, those are probably only present in the respective
> file headers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
> ---
> README | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
Applied, thanks
Sascha
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