EDK II license query

EDK II license query

[Varun Sethi]

Hi,
I don't see a top-level license in the EDKII repository. As per the following link EDKII uses BSD license.
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II

Is there a specific reason for not having a top-level license in the EDK II repository?

Regards
Varun

Re: EDK II license query

[Marvin H?user]

Hey,

I'm not sure if the situation changed as I did not check the license of every single package, though in the past, at least the FAT driver was released under a different license than the rest, due to Microsoft.
That has been resolved, though personally, I don't see a benefit in a top-level license file if there's the possibility of new packages still being furnished under a license different than the main one.

Regards,
Marvin.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of
> Varun Sethi
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 1:18 PM
> To: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> Cc: Peter W Newton <peter.newton@nxp.com>
> Subject: [edk2] EDK II license query
> 
> Hi,
> I don't see a top-level license in the EDKII repository. As per the following link
> EDKII uses BSD license.
> https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II
> 
> Is there a specific reason for not having a top-level license in the EDK II
> repository?
> 
> Regards
> Varun
> 
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Re: EDK II license query

[Kinney, Michael D]

Varun,

Right now, all the license files are one level down in each
Package in the edk2 repository.

I am actually preparing some patches to address this issue
since all of the packages have the same license.  There are
a few files/directories that are covered by a different license
(e.g. MIT), but the license file for those is in the directory
with the content that covered by that other license.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On
> Behalf Of Varun Sethi
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 4:18 AM
> To: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> Cc: Peter W Newton <peter.newton@nxp.com>
> Subject: [edk2] EDK II license query
> 
> Hi,
> I don't see a top-level license in the EDKII repository. As per
> the following link EDKII uses BSD license.
> https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II
> 
> Is there a specific reason for not having a top-level license in
> the EDK II repository?
> 
> Regards
> Varun
> 
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