From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received-SPF: Pass (sender SPF authorized) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=209.132.183.28; helo=mx1.redhat.com; envelope-from=lersek@redhat.com; receiver=edk2-devel@lists.01.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ml01.01.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4825C21B02822 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2019 03:04:15 -0700 (PDT) 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 mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6908309267F; Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:04:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lacos-laptop-7.usersys.redhat.com (ovpn-120-188.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.120.188]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C0660C64; Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:04:08 +0000 (UTC) To: "Kinney, Michael D" , Lars Kurth , Julien Grall Cc: "edk2-devel@lists.01.org" , Ard Biesheuvel , "Justen, Jordan L" , Anthony Perard , =?UTF-8?Q?Marc-Andr=c3=a9_Lureau?= , Stefan Berger References: <6de07821-a05e-9446-7ef6-c178eaf2fdfb@arm.com> <8F40F2BF-B40F-4338-A832-70AE84B26408@citrix.com> <6FBC013D-4BC9-454C-9D4D-87C96F435704@citrix.com> From: Laszlo Ersek Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:04:07 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.12 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.43]); Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: PATCH] Change EDK II to BSD+Patent License X-BeenThere: edk2-devel@lists.01.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: EDK II Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:04:16 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 ; Julien Grall >> ; Kinney, Michael D >> >> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Ard Biesheuvel >> ; Justen, Jordan L >> ; Anthony Perard >> ; Marc-André Lureau >> ; Stefan Berger >> >> 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" >> 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