Messages in this thread | | | From | Charlemagne Lasse <> | Subject | [RESENT,PATCH 0/5] licenses: Create LICENSES directory | Date | Sun, 12 Nov 2017 12:23:43 +0100 |
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From: Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com>
Hi,
the FSFE created some best practices for the (re)distribution of open source software [1]. They partially talk about the the SPDX-License-Identifier tag which Greg Kroah-Hartman is already using to clarify the copyright status of some source files. But they also recommend to ship the complete license texts in a LICENSES directory when they are not already included in the source files.
The Linux kernel itself is licensed under the GPL-2.0 but also references other licenses in some source files without the complete license text. I went through the SPDX-License-Identifier tags to find which ones are referenced and should be included.
This is only a start and I have not yet touched the COPYING file at all. This file should most likely also be included in the LICENSES/ directory with some name like GPL-2.0_Linux-syscall-note.txt. Maybe Jonas Oberg could lend me his expertise again and tell us whether this name would be appropriate and whether it should contain only the exception (the WITH part of "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note") or the complete content of the current COPYING file.
Thanks, Charlemagne Lasse
[1] https://reuse.software/practices/
Charlemagne Lasse (5): licenses: Add verbatim LGPL-2.0 license text licenses: Add verbatim LGPL-2.1 license text licenses: Add verbatim MPL-1.1 license text licenses: Add verbatim GPL-1.0 license text licenses: Add verbatim GPL-2.0 license text
LICENSES/GPL-1.0.txt | 251 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ LICENSES/GPL-2.0.txt | 339 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LICENSES/LGPL-2.0.txt | 481 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LICENSES/LGPL-2.1.txt | 502 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LICENSES/MPL-1.1.txt | 469 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 2042 insertions(+) create mode 100644 LICENSES/GPL-1.0.txt create mode 100644 LICENSES/GPL-2.0.txt create mode 100644 LICENSES/LGPL-2.0.txt create mode 100644 LICENSES/LGPL-2.1.txt create mode 100644 LICENSES/MPL-1.1.txt
PS: I had to resent this because the LKML seems to have rejected this mail. Sorry for the other recipients for receiving the mail twice.
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