Re: PATCH] Change EDK II to BSD+Patent License

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

Hi Jordan,

No proposed changes to the Signed-off-by tags.  If you have 
a proposal, please provide an RFC or bring to the monthly
EDK II community meeting.

This series is focused on the license change, the use of SPDX
identifiers, and removing the Contributed-under tag from
commit messages.

I will update the V2 version of the patch series in to make
sure the content from Contributions.txt that is not part of
the TianoCore Contribution Agreement is added to Readme.md.

The RFC mentioned the need to update documentation.  I will
send that out as a separate Wiki patch series for review.

Best regards,

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justen, Jordan L
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 11:04 AM
> To: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>;
> edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> Subject: Re: [edk2] PATCH] Change EDK II to BSD+Patent
> License
> 
> On 2019-03-13 10:54:22, Kinney, Michael D wrote:
> >
> > 84141eacac edk2: Remove Contributions.txt and update
> Readme.md
> 
> I guess this removes the requirement for the
> 'Contributed-under' tag
> in commit messages?
> 
> But, what about Signed-off-by? Is it desirable to
> remove that
> requirement?
> 
> Relatedly, some open source projects have standardized
> on tying the
> Signed-off-by to this text:
> 
> https://developercertificate.org/
> 
> So, the contributor doesn't have to agree to give the
> project the
> contribution under the Contributed-under terms, but
> they still
> indicate that they believe that the project can use the
> code under the
> project's indicated license.
> 
> There is also other information in Contributions.txt
> that appears to
> have been deleted, rather than moved. I guess it is
> mostly duplicated
> on the wiki. That doesn't mean it's not a good idea to
> duplicate it in
> the source tree, or at least provide a web-link. It
> seems like the
> first place devs might look for such information is
> either the readme,
> or Contributions.txt.
> 
> Regarding the wiki, I guess it has to be updated after
> this change is
> made. It might be good to add that to the bug so it
> can't be closed
> until that is fixed.
> 
> How about updating BaseTools/Scripts/PatchCheck.py?
> 
> -Jordan