coreboot April 2015

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Re: [coreboot] License headers
by Matt Taggart 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Patrick Georgi via coreboot writes: > http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/9233/ is my work in progress towards > that goal. It's not complete yet, and I'd love to have some automated > verification in our 'lint' tool set to make sure that no FSF addresses > creep in once we exorcised them. I asked the FOSSology.org people (cc'd) if they could scan current git on the public FOSSology server hosted by University of Nebraska at Omaha. The results are here https://fossology.ist.unomaha.edu/?mod=browse&upload=284 specifically click on "License Browser" or "Copyright/Email/URL" (you will need javascript turned on for the site) I have asked if there is a way to explicitly search for the FSF addresses, that is a very common problem and would be good to solve. If it would be useful to run on a regular basis they have ways to automate that, just ask on the cc'd mailing list. (also future runs will be fast because it only has to scan things that have changed) Also while searching I found this LKML thread http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1794869 that might be a good lightweight way to automate scanning just for the FSF address issue. -- Matt Taggart matt(a)lackof.org

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License headers
by Patrick Georgi 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Hi, we had some fun discussion a while back about the license headers we use in our tree. Asking legal experts, they proposed we go for keeping the usual GPL license header intact, only stripping the FSF address (which gave the most churn on licenses in our tree, and as you can see in the commit below, we didn't even do a good job on keeping those current, or uniform). The rationale is that there are tools and work flows that expect license markers to be in some kind of 'normal form', and that's the one that exists for the GPL. Just like they typically have no opinion about firmware development matters (although lawyers are a weird bunch, some even write great graphics card drivers!), I have little to say about their opinion on license matters, so my proposal is to follow expert advice. http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/9233/ is my work in progress towards that goal. It's not complete yet, and I'd love to have some automated verification in our 'lint' tool set to make sure that no FSF addresses creep in once we exorcised them. I deliberately kept util/kconfig as-is to keep changes compared to its upstream to a minimum. Patrick -- Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891, Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Graham Law, Christine Elizabeth Flores

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