From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-74.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-74.mimecast.com [170.10.133.74]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web10.6736.1651821757693192635 for ; Fri, 06 May 2022 00:22:38 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@redhat.com header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=gQxW+Mo/; spf=pass (domain: redhat.com, ip: 170.10.133.74, mailfrom: kraxel@redhat.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1651821756; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=tE4sWtqbxmbmKxakmS+EvtJOXp2P6QoPQUn1kQAIP/0=; b=gQxW+Mo/cmFh3QtTTGi/yUx8RBTR0EP4AsdY9MMCKy7Bj4XAdKba3MBk6w+N2h++9fS5CI rTIpSA/Hi7xBjADYyEBjc6KLN2buquYOYyhlAW0p8sURXl80WZx53DN0aDM3BXHBARjI5j t2dDoqUg03/P954/cf84Qrrft3HLFm8= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mimecast-mx02.redhat.com [66.187.233.88]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-258-zb3OCZFBPV2nKUSlMjK1IQ-1; Fri, 06 May 2022 03:22:30 -0400 X-MC-Unique: zb3OCZFBPV2nKUSlMjK1IQ-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC66986B8C9; Fri, 6 May 2022 07:22:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sirius.home.kraxel.org (unknown [10.39.192.13]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3099240CF914; Fri, 6 May 2022 07:22:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by sirius.home.kraxel.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9AF111800393; Fri, 6 May 2022 09:22:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 09:22:25 +0200 From: "Gerd Hoffmann" To: devel@edk2.groups.io, quic_llindhol@quicinc.com Cc: Ard Biesheuvel , Erdem Aktas , Maciej Rabeda , Abner Chang , Peter Grehan , Yuwei Chen , Jiaxin Wu , Siyuan Fu , Sean Brogan , Anthony Perard , Benjamin You , Guomin Jiang , Rebecca Cran , Wei6 Xu , Nickle Wang , Xiaoyu Lu , Zhichao Gao , kilian_kegel@hotmail.com, Liming Gao , Jordan Justen , Sami Mujawar , Andrew Fish , Oliver Steffen , Alexei Fedorov , Guo Dong , Brijesh Singh , Jian J Wang , Supreeth Venkatesh , Min Xu , Bret Barkelew , Maurice Ma , Pawel Polawski , Daniel Schaefer , Bob Feng , James Bottomley , Jiewen Yao , Ray Ni , Julien Grall , Michael D Kinney , Sebastien Boeuf , Zhiguang Liu , Tom Lendacky Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v3 05/10] MdePkg/CompilerIntrinsicsLib: copy over intrinsics from edk2-libc repo Message-ID: <20220506072225.puo3narjs7mtlzbt@sirius.home.kraxel.org> References: <20220429102019.1375348-1-kraxel@redhat.com> <20220429102019.1375348-6-kraxel@redhat.com> <20220505102318.5jivneoxmtjr53hn@sirius.home.kraxel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.11.54.1 Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=kraxel@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 01:10:12PM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 12:23:18 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 10:50:27AM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote: > > > ...I think these files should also be given the SPDX treatment, and > > > while doing that have the explicit patent grant added by changing them > > > from BSD2 to BSD+Patent. > > > > See patch #6 ;) > > Right. But bringing it in under a license that does not include the > explicit patent grant creates uncertainty about how terrified large > slow-moving companies need to be to fine comb every individual commit > at every import/export stage. Ok, I can quash those two commits if it makes things easier. > > > (comments on the process are welcome too, not sure I can just change the > > licence without intel explicitly acking this ...). > > Swapping an explicit license to an SPDX tag describing the same > license should not be controversial. And neither should *adding* a > patent grant to that license. (The Intel copyright statements should > obviously be retained.) > > If you feel we need to get an explicit nod from someone at Intel > ... that would be easier when Kinney wasn't on sabbatical :) Well, I'm not a lawyer, so I prefer to play safe ... If there is agreement that adding the patent grant isn't a problem that is fine with me too. take care, Gerd