Re: [edk2-devel] [WebSite Patch] Change preferred license of EDK II to BSD+Patent

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io
> [mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io] On Behalf Of Laszlo Ersek
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2019 2:14 AM
> To: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>;
> devel@edk2.groups.io
> Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>; Leif Lindholm
> <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [WebSite Patch] Change
> preferred license of EDK II to BSD+Patent
> 
> On 04/18/19 05:31, Kinney, Michael D wrote:
> > Laszlo,
> >
> > I am still working on how to pre-view these changes
> as they
> > would appear on the website once checked in.
> 
> That's OK -- in this case I'm fine if I can only look
> at the pre-patch
> rendering. But those rendered pages, I would like to
> see.
> 
> > There are 4 files patched.  Only the following one is
> > accessible from GitHub pages.
> >
> > 	https://www.tianocore.org/legalese.html
> >
> > The other three files appear to be old information
> that
> > needs to be deleted.  The links for these details now
> point
> > to a wiki page instead of a web site page.
> >
> > 	> >  edk2/index.md | 3 +--
> > 	> >  ovmf/index.md | 2 +-
> > 	> >  site/index.md | 2 +-
> 
> Yes, this was my experience exactly -- from the
> filenames in the patch,
> I tried to construct the URLs manually, and all except
> one redirected me
> to the wiki.
> 
> So we're updating dead pages too, in this patch. Should
> we replace those
> hunks with the removals of the dead pages instad? (I
> presume the dead
> pages do not participate in the redirection actions.)

I did the patch based on the content from the git repo
for the web site.  I did not realize that three of them
appear to be unreachable content.

I would prefer to have this patch series go through, and I
will open a new BZ to remove dead pages.

> 
> Thanks
> Laszlo
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: devel@edk2.groups.io
> >> [mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io] On Behalf Of Laszlo
> Ersek
> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 5:47 AM
> >> To: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>;
> >> devel@edk2.groups.io
> >> Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>; Leif Lindholm
> >> <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [WebSite Patch] Change
> >> preferred license of EDK II to BSD+Patent
> >>
> >> 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/BSDplusP
> >> atent)
> >>>
> >>>  #### 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/BSDplusPa
> >> tent)
> >>>
> >>>  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/BSDplusPa
> >> tent){:target="_blank"}
> >>>
> >>>  Source repository:
> >>
> <https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io>{:tar
> >> get="_blank"}
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
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