Re: [edk2-devel] CodeQL and Apache Licensed Files

["Pedro Falcato" <pedro.falcato@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 12:51 PM Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/27/23 23:11, Michael Kubacki wrote:
> > I'd like to bring attention to Apache License 2.0 code in the CodeQL
> > series I sent to the mailing list for steward review.
> >
> > In particular, the files in the BaseTools/Plugin/CodeQL/analyze
> > directory of this patch:
> >
> > https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/109696
> >
> > Please let me know if any next steps are needed.
>
> (1) I don't know if edk2 accepts contributions under Apache License 2.0;
> just want to point out that this license is acceptable in Fedora (and so
> RHEL too), per
> <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/allowed-licenses/>. Assuming
> we're talking about "Apache Software License 2.0".
>
> (2) Should we extend "License Details" and "Code Contributions" in
> "ReadMe.rst"?
>
> (3) Should the new files (under Apache License 2.0) use an SPDX
> identifier tag, for easy greppability?

I would welcome replacing *all* copyright notices with SPDX tags.
Would also end the "Copyright (c) Corp Corporation" churn that
regularly happens in EDK2!

-- 
Pedro


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