[coreboot] Depthcharge License

[Aaron Durbin]

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/platform/depthcharge/+/837589

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 11:14 AM, <tturne at codeaurora.org> wrote:

> On 2017-12-19 09:53, David Hendricks wrote:
>
>> To be fair, it appears that many source files refer to a non-existent
>> LICENSE file. Someone on the CrOS team should probably just add the
>> LICENSE file for depthcharge and/or contact mal@ to see how the
>> license info is being collected these days (e.g. for
>> chrome://os-credits [3]).
>>
>>
> Thanks for the input on the DC licensing, and because lawyers are involved
> I need to ask a direct question.
> Can a Depthcharge maintainer (anybody who has +2 gerrit authority would
> suffice) state on this thread
> that the Depthcharge project license is GPLv2 (or later)?
>
> I know this feels redundant and that the question has been asked and
> answered, I'm just trying
> to satisfy our internal legal group.
>
> Per David's point above, this direct question would not be required to
> satisfy the lawyers
> if a top-level COPYING or LICENSE file is added to Depthcharge.  Which I
> will be happy to
> add once I'm able to start contributing to the project.
> Cheers,
> T.mike
>
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 9:19 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Is there even a question? Looks like aaron just answered the
>>> original question, which boils down to Read The Source?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 7:58 AM Aaron Durbin via coreboot
>>> <coreboot at coreboot.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 8:03 AM, <tturne at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>>> On 2017-12-15 13:39, tturne at codeaurora.org wrote:
>>> Preparing to mirror the coreboot.org [1] requires us to vet the
>>> various
>>> licenses, etc.
>>>
>>> There doesn't appear to be a LICENSE or COPYING file in the
>>> Depthcharge tree.
>>>
>>> My understanding is that Depthcharge is licensed GPLv2 (or later).
>>>
>>> How would I confirm this with an online source?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> T.mike
>>>
>>> Should this query be posted on Chromium list rather than Coreboot
>>> list?
>>>
>>
>> Probably. The files in the depthcharge repository  have licenses at
>> the top of each file. They are GPLv2.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>> T.mike
>>>
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