Patrick Georgi has uploaded this change for review.
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"
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