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* [WebSite Patch] Change preferred license of EDK II to BSD+Patent
@ 2019-04-15 20:38 Michael D Kinney
  2019-04-16 12:46 ` Laszlo Ersek
  2019-04-18 22:52 ` Laszlo Ersek
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Michael D Kinney @ 2019-04-15 20:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: devel; +Cc: Andrew Fish, Laszlo Ersek, Leif Lindholm

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(-)

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"}
 
-- 
2.21.0.windows.1


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