Re: [PATCH] LICENSES: adopt Linux-like LICENSES directory structure

[Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 03:58:03PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> At the moment
>         grep -R --exclude-dir=build --exclude-dir=.git -P 'SPDX-License-Identifier:' | ack -v 'GPL-2.0'
> 
> shows me 39 non-dually-licensed source code files (SoCFPGA) that have a
> BSD-3-Clause license _identifier_.
> There seems to be no barebox BSD-3-Clause license  _text_ however,
> which runs afoul of the first clause of the license.
> 
> To account for this and future contributions which are licensed under
> non-GPL-2.0-but-compatible licenses, create a new LICENSES directory
> like the one Linux has, where licenses are located.
> 
> The barebox jumptable exception was imported from U-Boot and mangled
> by a mass search and replace in a3ffa97f4. A rephrased version
> of this exception has the SPDX-License-Identifier: u-boot-exception-2.0
> which I suggest to adopt for barebox as well by referencing it
> in the COPYING file (with a note about the original project name,
> so it's understood what's meant by u-boot in the exception text).

Nice. Thanks for working on this.

> diff --git a/LICENSES/exceptions/u-boot-exception-2.0 b/LICENSES/exceptions/u-boot-exception-2.0
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..c9b3cd981f51
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/LICENSES/exceptions/u-boot-exception-2.0
> @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
> +
> +GPL License Exception:
> +
> +Even though U-Boot in general is covered by the GPL-2.0/GPL-2.0+,
> +this does *not* cover the so-called "standalone" applications that
> +use U-Boot services by means of the jump table provided by U-Boot
> +exactly for this purpose - this is merely considered normal use of
> +U-Boot, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
> +
> +  The header files "include/image.h" and "arch/*/include/asm/u-boot.h"
> +define interfaces to U-Boot.  Including these (unmodified) header
> +files in another file is considered normal use of U-Boot, and does
> +*not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

I don't think we need this. barebox doesn't have (and never had since
the fork from U-Boot) these standalone applications. There is no
jumptable in barebox. What we do have is modules support, but these are
not covered by this text.

Sascha

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