Re: PATCH] Change EDK II to BSD+Patent License

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 03/23/19 01:44, Kinney, Michael D wrote:
> Hi Laszlo,
> 
> I have entered the following BZ for SPDX identifiers for 
> MIT licensed content in OvmfPkg. 
> 
> https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1654

Thank you!
Laszlo

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:lersek@redhat.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:10 AM
>> To: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>; Julien Grall
>> <julien.grall@arm.com>; Kinney, Michael D
>> <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
>> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Ard Biesheuvel
>> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>; Justen, Jordan L
>> <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>; Anthony Perard
>> <anthony.perard@citrix.com>; Marc-André Lureau
>> <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>; Stefan Berger
>> <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
>> Subject: Re: [edk2] PATCH] Change EDK II to BSD+Patent
>> License
>>
>> On 03/15/19 18:48, Lars Kurth wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 15/03/2019, 10:18, "Julien Grall"
>> <julien.grall@arm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>     >
>>>     >      EDK2 is converting the full copyright in
>> each file to SDPX identifier. While the
>>>     >      copyright looks like an MIT license, it has
>> never been confirmed. Andrew Cooper
>>>     >      suggested you might be able to confirm.
>>>     >
>>>     > Is there a web-link to the files/repos such that
>> I don’t have to clone the repo
>>>     > Lars
>>>
>>>     Here an example of files from Xen public headers:
>>>
>>>
>> https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=tree;f=xen/in
>> clude/public;h=0618b0134d2b9babcba71a3f0f86be5a84468b50;h
>> b=HEAD
>>>
>>> OK, this makes this easy then. Because in all
>> likelihood, the files were copied from xen/include/public
>> and then the COPYING file
>> https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=xen/in
>> clude/public/COPYING applies, which states that
>> everything in this directory is MIT, unless stated
>> otherwise in the file.
>>>
>>> So as long as someone confirms that the files in
>> OvmfPkg/Include came from xen/include/public, this is a
>> clear case of a MIT license
>>> If they are files from other directories in Xen, check
>> the COPYING file in the original directory (or if there
>> is none in the parent directory) and check the COPYING
>> file
>>>
>>> I am not so clear about where the files in XenBusDxe
>> came from, but the same principle applies.
>>>
>>> If someone groups these files by "original directory in
>> Xen" to File ... I am happy to do a final sanity check
>> and sign it off and/or deal with any unclear cases
>>
>> Replacing MIT license blocks with SPDX identifiers is
>> something we
>> should do later -- I think it's out of scope for Mike's
>> current patch
>> series, it's just something I noticed and pointed out for
>> the future,
>> while I was verifying the "license block -> SPDX ID"
>> replacements for
>> 2-BSDL (i.e., *not* MIT).
>>
>> Mike mentioned that he was going to file a number of
>> TianoCore BZs as a
>> result of the discussion in this thread. Mike, can you
>> please file one
>> for the MIT->SPDX "refactoring" (under OvmfPkg) as well?
>> If not, I can
>> file it myself later, I just wouldn't like us to end up
>> with duplicates.
>>
>> Once we have that separate BZ, we can discuss it in
>> isolation.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Laszlo