Patrick Georgi has uploaded this change for review. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/39282 )
Change subject: util/lint: Add BSD-4-Clause-UC to acceptable licenses ......................................................................
util/lint: Add BSD-4-Clause-UC to acceptable licenses
While a 4 clause BSD license "with advertising" is incompatible to the GPL, the University of California declared the problematic clause null and void.
See ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
Change-Id: I4ebb822f64989a5fc8f686e548a94653508d1113 Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi pgeorgi@google.com --- M util/lint/lint-000-license-headers 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/82/39282/1
diff --git a/util/lint/lint-000-license-headers b/util/lint/lint-000-license-headers index 48f7b40..1382d7f 100755 --- a/util/lint/lint-000-license-headers +++ b/util/lint/lint-000-license-headers @@ -111,6 +111,13 @@ check_for_license 'SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT' check_for_license 'SPDX-License-Identifier: X11'
+# This is 4 clause ("with advertising") but the University of Berkeley +# declared that 4th clause void, see +# ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change +# With this, BSD-4-Clause-UC becomes GPLv2 compatible, and so SPDX doesn't +# differentiate between this license with or without advertising. +check_for_license 'SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-4-Clause-UC' + if [ ! "${SPDX_ONLY}" = "1" ]; then check_for_license "under the terms of the GNU General Public License" \ "WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY"