From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [RFC] Reduce LICENCE/COPYING files
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 13:57:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YLjDnXeWib2KSILF@pevik> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YLi3XqA3hLh7HWqn@yuki>
Hi Cyril,
> Hi!
> > I suppose it's safe to keep only single licence in testcases/open_posix_testsuite/,
> > but could we keep only COPYING in the root directory and delete the rest?
> > Or keep COPYING and testcases/open_posix_testsuite/COPYING only?
> Do we even need these files? Isn't SPDX identifier enough these days?
It be nice we don't need it, but not sure. Looking into kernel tree, there is
LICENSES folder [1] and they describe how they use SPDX [2]:
Valid-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Valid-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
Valid-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
Valid-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.html
Usage-Guide:
To use this license in source code, put one of the following SPDX
tag/value pairs into a comment according to the placement
guidelines in the licensing rules documentation.
For 'GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 only' use:
SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
or
SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
For 'GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or any later version' use:
SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
or
SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
License-Text:
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
...
Kind regards,
Petr
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/LICENSES
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-03 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-02 13:00 [LTP] [RFC] Reduce LICENCE/COPYING files Petr Vorel
2021-06-03 11:05 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-06-03 11:57 ` Petr Vorel [this message]
2021-06-04 9:13 ` Li Wang
2021-06-04 9:21 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-06-04 9:48 ` Petr Vorel
2021-06-04 17:47 ` Enji Cooper
2021-06-04 18:15 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-06-07 8:14 ` Petr Vorel
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