From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-core 3/4] debian/copyright: Add copyright information Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 08:25:37 -0700 Message-ID: <20161229152537.GB30742@obsidianresearch.com> References: <20161229134908.13185-1-leon@kernel.org> <20161229134908.13185-4-leon@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161229134908.13185-4-leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Leon Romanovsky Cc: dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Leon Romanovsky , Talat Batheesh List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 03:49:07PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > From: Talat Batheesh > > This patch adds debian/copyright file and list all > different licences and copyrights, according to > debian policy. > +Files: * > +License: GPL-2+ or BSD We don't have anything that includes the 'any later version' clause in the copyright header required to be GPLv2+ - so everything should be simply 'GPL-2' > +Files: debian/* > +Copyright: 2016 Talat Batheesh > +License: GPL-2+ You can add me here too > +Files: buildlib/cbuild > +Copyright: 2015, 2016, Obsidian Research Corp. See COPYING. > +License: GPL-2+ or BSD > + > +Files: buildlib/fixup-include/* > +Copyright: 2016, Mellanox Technologies Ltd. > +License: GPL-2+ or BSD Many of these copyright attributions are a bit wonky :\ I personally think this format of Debian's is too difficult. > +Files: ccan/* > +Copyright: unspecified > +License: CC0 and BSD-MIT > + > +Files: ibacm/* > +Copyright: 2013-2015, Mellanox Technologies LTD. > + 2009-2014, Intel Corporation. > +License: GPL-2 or OpenIB.org BSD (FreeBSD variant) There is no text stanza for 'OpenIB.org BSD' > +Files: providers/ipathverbs/* > +Copyright: 2006-2009, QLogic Corp. > + 2005 > +License: GPL-2+ or BSD ipath has a special license. Please review COPYING.md and make sure all the special cases called out are covered properly. > +License: GPL-2+ or BSD I think this should just be 'BSD', same with all the 'or' stanzas. I didn't see the intel bsd license in here (see providers/hfi1verbs/hfiverbs.c, it is slightly different again) It would be good to update COPYING.md to refer people to this new file as it is better than the short summary. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html