Messages in this thread | | | From | Charlemagne Lasse <> | Date | Sat, 11 Nov 2017 21:56:08 +0100 | Subject | Adding LICENSES folder for REUSE |
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Hi,
the linux kernel is a GPL-2.0 project but is build based on files using all kinds of different licenses. It would be really nice when these licenses could be correctly referenced as described in the https://reuse.software/practices/ from the FSF.
Since some people started to add the SPDX headers to some files, it might now be the right time to ask to get a LICENSES folder which will contain the separate licenses. According to the currently existing SPDX-License-Identifier, this should be at least:
- GPL-1.0 - GPL-2.0 - BSD-2-Clause - BSD-3-Clause - MIT - MPL-1.1 - LGPL-2.0 - LGPL-2.1
I personally don't understand why BSD-2-Clause or MIT needs to have the copyright file stored with the copyright holder while GPL-2.0 doesn't need that. Seems to be quite wasteful and useless in a project like the Linux kernel. Especially when there are multiple copyright holders - and there are different combination in each file. Maybe the FSFE can give us some insights here.
Here just two example files:
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dfs.c?id=b39545684a90ef3374abc0969d64c7bc540d128d - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9580_1p0_initvals.h?id=b39545684a90ef3374abc0969d64c7bc540d128d
It would also be interesting to know from the FSFE how dual license should be handled in by the License-Filename tag.
Thanks, Charlemagne Lasse
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