From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com [207.211.31.81]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web11.2462.1593793506879288205 for ; Fri, 03 Jul 2020 09:25:07 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@redhat.com header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=KoOuCXS6; spf=pass (domain: redhat.com, ip: 207.211.31.81, mailfrom: lersek@redhat.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1593793506; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=lcv2oTSVSGt7zbuT7u737L6XqsaNAOj0gjLyC0Crba4=; b=KoOuCXS6NQwfJBSyKQWfEyW6+Ypcg2CdCEks/XRj9Y/wD/cXUaHUuTliy4ouxE0KSJNNMY QckcYw6TVtEybiy1yC46SzNrT4lMfqWQRzmLDnHFFs3jFY5PxNuIRvZobHTCLP6HojkE0O McvhUHfAexikyi6sh4MPmu0h3/nDcj0= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-59-Cz4INaeEMFeVA7PaaBWZ8Q-1; Fri, 03 Jul 2020 12:24:55 -0400 X-MC-Unique: Cz4INaeEMFeVA7PaaBWZ8Q-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx07.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D13FE8015F6; Fri, 3 Jul 2020 16:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lacos-laptop-7.usersys.redhat.com (ovpn-114-238.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.114.238]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE20E1002397; Fri, 3 Jul 2020 16:24:52 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ReadMe.rst: delete statements about other accepted licenses To: Leif Lindholm , devel@edk2.groups.io Cc: Andrew Fish , Michael D Kinney References: <20200702112420.18408-1-leif@nuviainc.com> <20200702112420.18408-3-leif@nuviainc.com> From: "Laszlo Ersek" Message-ID: Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 18:24:52 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200702112420.18408-3-leif@nuviainc.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.22 Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=lersek@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 07/02/20 13:24, Leif Lindholm wrote: > In the past, the TianoCore Contribution Agreement provided equal to what > the (+patent) gives us, but also for all the alternative licenses listed > under "Code Contributions". When the contribution agreement was dropped, > no conversation was had about this aspect. Please see my wording questions under the blurb. > > Until this issue is resolved, only code licensed under edk2+patent should > be accepted into the project. > > This addresses, but does not resolve, > https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2834 > > Cc: Andrew Fish > Cc: Laszlo Ersek > Cc: Michael D Kinney > Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm > --- > ReadMe.rst | 13 ++----------- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/ReadMe.rst b/ReadMe.rst > index d597e34efc22..79f07240039e 100644 > --- a/ReadMe.rst > +++ b/ReadMe.rst > @@ -111,23 +111,14 @@ To make a contribution to a TianoCore project, follow these steps. > that the project documents on its web page. If the process is > not documented, then submit the code on development email list > for the project. > -#. It is preferred that contributions are submitted using the same > - copyright license as the base project. When that is not possible, > - then contributions using the following licenses can be accepted: > - > -- BSD (2-clause): http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause > -- BSD (3-clause): http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause > -- MIT: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT > -- Python-2.0: http://opensource.org/licenses/Python-2.0 > -- Zlib: http://opensource.org/licenses/Zlib > +#. Contributions must be submitted using the same copyright license > + as the base project. > > For documentation: > > - FreeBSD Documentation License > https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license.html > > -Contributions of code put into the public domain can also be accepted. > - > Contributions using other licenses might be accepted, but further > review will be required. > > *IF* the problem you describe is real (honestly I've never *understood* the problem statement before), then I think this change reflects that. So here's a conditional: Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek I defer to Mike on this though, as Mike drove . Thanks, Laszlo