Re: [RFC] Change EDK II to an Apache 2.0 License

[Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 06:39:28PM +0000, Kinney, Michael D wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This RFC follows up on the proposal from Mark Doran to change the 
> EDK II Project to an Apache 2.0 License.
> 
>     https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2018-October/030385.html
> 
> 
>   ** Please provide feedback on the proposal by Friday 12/7/18. **

7 December 2018 to anyone outside the US :)
 
> I will be following up with pointers to public GitHub branches that
> contain the initial set of changes in steps (1) and (2) below for 
> review. 
> 
> The proposal is to perform this change to edk2/master in the steps listed
> below. The license change will not be applied to any of the other existing
> branches in the edk2 repository.
> 
> 1) Change all files with a BSD 2-Clause license and only a single 
>    copyright statement by Intel Corporation to an Apache 2.0 license
>    and add an SPDX-License-Identifier statement.
> 
>    ======================================================================
>    SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
> 
>    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
>    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
>    You may obtain a copy of the License at
> 
>        http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
> 
>    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
>    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
>    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
>    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
>    limitations under the License.
>    ======================================================================
> 
> 2) Update Readme.md and License.txt in the root of the edk2 repository to
>    state that content is covered by a mix of BSD 2-Clause and Apache 2.0
>    licenses. 
> 
> 3) Update all documentation to state that content submitted under the 
>    Apache 2.0 license no longer requires the Tianocore Contribution
>    Agreement which means the following line is not required in commit
>    messages for changes to files that are covered by an Apache 2.0 License.

Presumably this also applies to files _added_ with an Apache 2.0
License? (If so, the above could benefit from minor rewording.)

>        Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
> 
> 4) Create Wiki page(s) that provide the details of the Apache 2.0 License
>    change and provide the status of the license change for each package
>    in the edk2 repository.  Also provide a list of the additional copyright
>    holders that need to be contacted to accept the change to an Apache 2.0
>    License along with the status of that acceptance.
> 
> 5) After all copyright holders have accepted the change to an Apache 2.0
>    License, change the remaining files from BSD 2-Clause to Apache 2.0.
> 
> 6) Update Readme.md and License.txt in the edk2 repository to state that
>    Apache 2.0 is the preferred license for the EDK II project.

>From Linaro's side, we have no concern beyond that we'd like to hear
ARM's opinion. (Adding cc.)

Regards,

Leif