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

["Michael D Kinney" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>]

Hi Pedro,

SPDX is only for licenses, not copyrights.

There used to be a requirement for Intel copyright end year to be updated.
That is no longer a requirement, and should reduce the churn on the file
headers.

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 12:23 PM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; lersek@redhat.com
> Cc: mikuback@linux.microsoft.com; Kinney, Michael D
> <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Leif Lindholm
> <quic_llindhol@quicinc.com>; Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>; Sean
> Brogan <sean.brogan@microsoft.com>; Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>;
> Oliver Steffen <osteffen@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] CodeQL and Apache Licensed Files
> 
> 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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