Re: [WebSite Patch] Change preferred license of EDK II to BSD+Patent

["Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>]

Hi Mike,

On 04/15/19 22:38, Michael D Kinney wrote:
> https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656
> 
> Change the web page documentation to state that the preferred license
> of the EDK II is the BSD+Patent License.
> 
> Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> ---
>  edk2/index.md | 3 +--
>  legalese.md   | 3 ++-
>  ovmf/index.md | 2 +-
>  site/index.md | 2 +-
>  4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

can you please remind me where I can clone the website repo, and at what
*individual* URLs I can look at these four rendered pages? (Pre-patch
state is fine too.)

Thanks!
Laszlo

> diff --git a/edk2/index.md b/edk2/index.md
> index 2596fb3..6c6c6ea 100644
> --- a/edk2/index.md
> +++ b/edk2/index.md
> @@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ EDK II is a modern, feature-rich, cross-platform firmware development
>  environment for the UEFI and PI specifications.
>  
>  #### License information:  
> -[BSD](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)
> -
> +[BSD+Patent]((https://opensource.org/licenses/BSDplusPatent)
>  
>  #### Source repositories:  
>  * edk2 main repository - [https://github.com/tianocore/edk2](https://github.com/tianocore/edk2)
> diff --git a/legalese.md b/legalese.md
> index 9a2c8b2..03965b6 100644
> --- a/legalese.md
> +++ b/legalese.md
> @@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ title: Legal
>  
>  ## Licenses for TianoCore Contributions
>  
> -The preferred license for TianoCore is [BSD-2-Clause]({{wiki}}/BSD-License){:target="_blank"}. The [TianoCore contributors agreement](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tianocore/edk2/master/Contributions.txt){:target="_blank"} describes acceptable licenses for community contributions.
> +The preferred license for TianoCore is [BSD+Patent]({{wiki}}/BSD-Plus-Patent-License){:target="_blank"}. When that is not possible, then contributions using
> +the following licenses can be accepted:
>  * BSD (2-clause): [http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause){:target="_blank"}
>  * BSD (3-clause): [http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause](http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause){:target="_blank"}
>  * MIT: [http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT){:target="_blank"}
> diff --git a/ovmf/index.md b/ovmf/index.md
> index 843ad71..97c0cf3 100644
> --- a/ovmf/index.md
> +++ b/ovmf/index.md
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ OVMF is an [EDK II] based project to enable UEFI support for Virtual
>  Machines.  OVMF contains a sample UEFI firmware for [QEMU] and [KVM].
>  
>  License information:
> - [BSD](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)
> +  [BSD+Patent]((https://opensource.org/licenses/BSDplusPatent)
>  
>  More information:
>    [OVMF FAQ]({{wiki}}/OVMF FAQ),
> diff --git a/site/index.md b/site/index.md
> index 9684422..dd3ffcc 100644
> --- a/site/index.md
> +++ b/site/index.md
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ title: TianoCore web site
>  Our website is open source. Let us know if you have site content or
>  other website improvements!
>  
> -License information: [BSD](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php){:target="_blank"}
> +License information: [BSD+Patent]((https://opensource.org/licenses/BSDplusPatent){:target="_blank"}
>  
>  Source repository: <https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io>{:target="_blank"}
>  
>