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Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 16:32:02 +0100
From: "Leif Lindholm" <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
To: devel@edk2.groups.io
Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	"Kinney, Michael D" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Subject: contribution of code licensed other than bsd+patent
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Hi stewards, and other interested people.

Readme.md lists a few licenses acceptable but not preferred (this text
used to live in Contributions.txt before the bsd+patent relicensing
effort). However, it does not explicitly state anything about the gap
that was left by the dropping of the TianoCore contribution agreement:
the explicit patent grant given by bsd+patent and TianoCore
contribution agreement.

As we have what I think is the first bit of code about to go in with a
non-bsd+patent license (the new ArmSoftFloat library), is this
something we need to worry about?

If nothing else, I think we should form an official opinion and add it
to Readme.md.

Best Regards,

Leif