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U-Boot: short license headers using SPDX Identifier
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Roger Meier <roger@...>
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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, wd@.... # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ 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. 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. all the best! -roger PS: similar discussions at Apache: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-114 |
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Wolfgang Denk
Dear Roger,
In message <045001ce89f0$e6805710$b3810530$@bufferoverflow.ch> you wrote: 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: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 stepThe 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: wd@... Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. |
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Jilayne Lovejoy <jilayne.lovejoy@...>
YES!!!! Yes, yes, yes. Thank you for being the trail blazer :)
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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 jlovejoy@... On 7/26/13 7:20 AM, "Wolfgang Denk" <wd@...> wrote:
Dear Roger, |
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