[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] relicense various bits of the dpdk

Neil Horman nhorman at tuxdriver.com
Thu Feb 1 13:19:11 CET 2018


Received a note the other day from the Linux Foundation governance board
for DPDK indicating that several files I have copyright on need to be
relicensed to be compliant with the DPDK licensing guidelines.  I have
some concerns with some parts of the request, but am not opposed to
other parts.  So, for those pieces that we are in consensus on, I'm
proposing that we change their license from BSD 2 clause to 3 clause.
I'm also updating the files to use the SPDX licensing scheme

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
CC: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>
CC: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

---
Change notes
V2) Cleaned up formatting (tmonjalon)
---
 devtools/validate-abi.sh       | 32 ++++----------------------------
 lib/librte_compat/rte_compat.h | 31 +++----------------------------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

diff --git a/devtools/validate-abi.sh b/devtools/validate-abi.sh
index 8caf43e83..ee64b08fa 100755
--- a/devtools/validate-abi.sh
+++ b/devtools/validate-abi.sh
@@ -1,32 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-#   BSD LICENSE
-#
-#   Copyright(c) 2015 Neil Horman. All rights reserved.
-#   Copyright(c) 2017 6WIND S.A.
-#   All rights reserved.
-#
-#   Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
-#   modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
-#   are met:
-#
-#     * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-#       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-#     * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-#       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
-#       the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
-#       distribution.
-#
-#   THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
-#   "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
-#   LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
-#   A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
-#   OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
-#   SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
-#   LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
-#   DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
-#   THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
-#   (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
-#   OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	BSD-3-Clause
+# Copyright(c) 2015 Neil Horman. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright(c) 2017 6WIND S.A.
+# All rights reserved
 
 set -e
 
diff --git a/lib/librte_compat/rte_compat.h b/lib/librte_compat/rte_compat.h
index d6e79f3fc..2cdc37214 100644
--- a/lib/librte_compat/rte_compat.h
+++ b/lib/librte_compat/rte_compat.h
@@ -1,31 +1,6 @@
-/*-
- *   BSD LICENSE
- *
- *   Copyright(c) 2015 Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>.
- *   All rights reserved.
- *
- *   Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
- *   modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
- *   are met:
- *
- *     * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
- *       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
- *     * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
- *       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
- *       the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
- *       distribution.
- *
- *   THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
- *   "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
- *   LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
- *   A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
- *   OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
- *   SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
- *   LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
- *   DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
- *   THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
- *   (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
- *   OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause 
+ * Copyright(c) 2015 Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>.
+ * All rights reserved.
  */
 
 #ifndef _RTE_COMPAT_H_
-- 
2.14.3



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