From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-wr1-f44.google.com (mail-wr1-f44.google.com [209.85.221.44]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web11.4484.1593689063457902681 for ; Thu, 02 Jul 2020 04:24:23 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@nuviainc-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.s=20150623 header.b=tI5ngBwr; spf=pass (domain: nuviainc.com, ip: 209.85.221.44, mailfrom: leif@nuviainc.com) Received: by mail-wr1-f44.google.com with SMTP id f7so24735554wrw.1 for ; Thu, 02 Jul 2020 04:24:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=nuviainc-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=/6/dfo+oIQdc838EB97ua0+tYnU/1sJCOq4wDemF/+o=; b=tI5ngBwrTqxWPwEDW71+LnosdP7yqAMEfP3DPt+rgAx6N5jwympSk7Vlx0rAPKrNhC qtW7E6oAzpivsz8nMwOK3gDKBwstIoWm2Bzv8woVSRAgBsTETM3R1tVCUgY7AeXGDiW1 jYv+QoyR0mSb4BGqZIDg2eranR5lyVsz6km42V75Cme56vYoBKh1KxG9TBM3z+114hqN xunp5VofNuiule/js77ZV4I4FmVKU3lEd8zEZILBXsdWblIujhUT/IVyVCzFn8h2mEPg MVjSF9Q4bdydTUu7SPeKwh4PxY0u+6GdwvD7gDgXU60kJjxUzfMPg3+Lb7CrJBt+gQ4T iz4Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=/6/dfo+oIQdc838EB97ua0+tYnU/1sJCOq4wDemF/+o=; b=FoUtDztBrvDt9YKh34vnFasBZoCIkt0YNC/V8OdR5jzNVGjruiMH89KFGhzP7vzPSI 1VQjzy+gO8J59wavG/gc3w0W2X/uqI+dADSAzCBMV6hDUgSFnk0ucyCgU+Ns7zSKH1uW Y13FOwS30GAwM19f+vgW8X/2SyVwK6Fl2KU66aNv5cLgQxDZCkV67SWFns3F2DzxzvhK yyo9OZ10ByRF65BfcGD5Op9+1Jb7OvUQyTK0H0NRzy4FG23mHpBDH5lNBWZtko1nvcyj W3pOo/4wAdG09IZSNYwOafIXm2qRpHXj6TL5a85UXXv1Dooo3RqCeh0lVVtq1BbvviX2 lzBA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5308k7ZtozbklaxMxIua4Kj30QmJeXZwae598+tqSXiFMipOZNeQ KptP+zgNpNX55eJSZ/wPDw8mUZO6ayDzi4JlkHna/xRDP3U+B+Dws5YffVk7IQL/11s/OmYmdA/ fGd8HTnOb2e0XY9CH4KyEBoj/g8qXdM1SEPQziABQiH0+g6V3h3A+FNgImBo4ugovHQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyIE9IMpR78yU++Jug9kTSLyUZ4sgHAocal+aUkS9ZPpCKjtat7XBemDo3p2R667JwoIwQ26A== X-Received: by 2002:a5d:4ac3:: with SMTP id y3mr30032906wrs.133.1593689061706; Thu, 02 Jul 2020 04:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from vanye.hemma.eciton.net (cpc92302-cmbg19-2-0-cust304.5-4.cable.virginm.net. [82.1.209.49]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b10sm9732148wmj.30.2020.07.02.04.24.20 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 02 Jul 2020 04:24:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Leif Lindholm" To: devel@edk2.groups.io Cc: Andrew Fish , Laszlo Ersek , Michael D Kinney , Shenglei Zhang , Yuwei Chen , Liming Gao Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Drop suggestions of alternative acceptable licenses Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 12:24:18 +0100 Message-Id: <20200702112420.18408-1-leif@nuviainc.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit (Echoing https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2834:) In the past, the TianoCore Contribution Agreement provided equal to what the (+patent) gives us, but also for all the alternative licenses listed under "Code Contributions". When the contribution agreement was dropped, no conversation was had about this aspect. Until this issue is resolved, only code licensed under edk2+patent should be accepted into the project. It is not obvious whether modifications to non-bsd+patent code that *was* contributed under the TCA can still be accepted. This set deletes the current version of license checking in PatchCheck.py that was added in a4cfb842fca9. It also deletes all references to other acceptable licenses (and public domain). This gives us a clean slate to make informed decisions on what is and is not acceptable for this project. The statement that "Contributions using other licenses might be accepted, but further review will be required." is intentionally retained. Leif Lindholm (2): Revert "BaseTools/PatchCheck.py: Add LicenseCheck" ReadMe.rst: delete statements about other accepted licenses Cc: Shenglei Zhang Cc: Yuwei Chen Cc: Liming Gao BaseTools/Scripts/PatchCheck.py | 50 --------------------------------- ReadMe.rst | 13 ++------- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-) -- 2.20.1