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.web10.2051.1593792623390486645 for ; Fri, 03 Jul 2020 09:10:23 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@redhat.com header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=dZv/pC/4; 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=1593792622; 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=NA0YlA/ipJEIOOXPBDIfI1ZwW1DIuif1F5f4sPDNJwI=; b=dZv/pC/4SMYYj69atfSewPAN5Ayg3PlI+Ls8OjR/erGiaDvLCtAfewJMwnKgD3Ek786/Oq exsVKgzIuW18oV2TzIHxR3d0exbHc56nsRQ86xbP4KxxmLYgKZIKJmHkjPyZhZKoRMJa+S 41norOtK2dnMIzc1mSYHNQI+CFFGQQw= 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-489-Zlx4pfeBMlysWX-vUS1xKQ-1; Fri, 03 Jul 2020 12:10:16 -0400 X-MC-Unique: Zlx4pfeBMlysWX-vUS1xKQ-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D4007186A20B; Fri, 3 Jul 2020 16:10:14 +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 58FEE19697; Fri, 3 Jul 2020 16:10:13 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Drop suggestions of alternative acceptable licenses To: Leif Lindholm , devel@edk2.groups.io Cc: Andrew Fish , Michael D Kinney , Shenglei Zhang , Yuwei Chen , Liming Gao References: <20200702112420.18408-1-leif@nuviainc.com> From: "Laszlo Ersek" Message-ID: Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 18:10:12 +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: <20200702112420.18408-1-leif@nuviainc.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.12 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: > (Echoing https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2834:) > 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. Some crucial words seem to be missing from the above paragraph: - "the TianoCore Contribution Agreement provided [???] equal to" -- do you mean "rights"? - "what the [???] (+patent) gives us" -- do you mean "2-clause BSDL"? Thanks Laszlo > > Until this issue is resolved, only code licensed under edk2+patent should > be accepted into the project. > > It is not obvious whether modifications to non-bsd+patent code that *was* > contributed under the TCA can still be accepted. > > This set deletes the current version of license checking in PatchCheck.py > that was added in a4cfb842fca9. It also deletes all references to other > acceptable licenses (and public domain). > > This gives us a clean slate to make informed decisions on what is and is > not acceptable for this project. > > The statement that "Contributions using other licenses might be accepted, > but further review will be required." is intentionally retained. > > Leif Lindholm (2): > Revert "BaseTools/PatchCheck.py: Add LicenseCheck" > ReadMe.rst: delete statements about other accepted licenses > > Cc: Shenglei Zhang > Cc: Yuwei Chen > Cc: Liming Gao > > BaseTools/Scripts/PatchCheck.py | 50 --------------------------------- > ReadMe.rst | 13 ++------- > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-) >