[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net: update licence for network headers

Andrew Rybchenko arybchenko at solarflare.com
Fri Dec 8 19:22:21 CET 2017


On 12/08/2017 08:29 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 12/8/2017 2:28 AM, Olivier Matz wrote:
>> To be compliant with the DPDK licensing guidelines, switch to
>> BSD-3-Clause. It can be done safely since the BSD headers from which
>> these files derive also exist as a BSD-3-Clause license in FreeBSD.
>>
>> Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freebsd/freebsd/78a6b0861813af31e1354fa407c5701e8764b4d6/sys/netinet/ip_icmp.h
>> Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freebsd/freebsd/78a6b0861813af31e1354fa407c5701e8764b4d6/sys/netinet/ip.h
>> Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freebsd/freebsd/78a6b0861813af31e1354fa407c5701e8764b4d6/sys/netinet/sctp.h
>> Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freebsd/freebsd/78a6b0861813af31e1354fa407c5701e8764b4d6/sys/netinet/tcp.h
>> Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freebsd/freebsd/78a6b0861813af31e1354fa407c5701e8764b4d6/sys/netinet/udp.h
>> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
> <...>
>
>> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
>>    *
>> - *      @(#)in.h        8.3 (Berkeley) 1/3/94
>> - * $FreeBSD: src/sys/netinet/in.h,v 1.82 2003/10/25 09:37:10 ume Exp $
>> + * Copyright(c) 1982, 1986, 1990, 1993
>> + *      The Regents of the University of California.
>> + * Copyright(c) 2013 6WIND S.A.
>> + * All rights reserved.
>>    */
> Not sure how much it matters but in the document Hemant put, order is different,
> it starts with Copyright line instead of SPDX line:
>
> "
> Copyright (C) [YEAR] NAME-OF-COPYRIGHT-HOLDER
> SPDX-License-Identifier:        BSD-3-Clause
> "
>
> So I assume for multiple Copyright holder:
>
> "
> Copyright (C) [YEAR] NAME-OF-COPYRIGHT-HOLDER
> Copyright (C) [YEAR] NAME-OF-COPYRIGHT-HOLDER-2
> Copyright (C) [YEAR] NAME-OF-COPYRIGHT-HOLDER-3
> SPDX-License-Identifier:        BSD-3-Clause
> "
>
> And do we still need "All rights reserved." ?
>
>
> I am for following same syntax in all files (whichever is chosen), this may
> helps us in the future for scripting licensing checks.
>
> <...>

License text example in [1] starts from Copyright and has All rights 
reserved.
I agree that template should be clearly specified from the very beginning.

[1] https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause#licenseText


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