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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] dual licensed files
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:45:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130726214545.5BC9E3803E7@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <047701ce8a46$bcc78820$36569860$@bufferoverflow.ch>

Dear Roger,

In message <047701ce8a46$bcc78820$36569860$@bufferoverflow.ch> you wrote:
> Thank you Wolfgang for simplifying license handling!

You are welcome!

> What about dual licensed files? What do you prefer?
> 
> SPDX-License-Identifier:        GPL-2.0+
> SPDX-License-Identifier:        BSD-2-Clause

This was my initial idea when I started thinking about this, but then
I realized that there were a few files that had (by accident) both
GPL-2.0+ and GPL-2.0 license headers (separated by a larger text
block, so it was not obvious at first glance), so my first attempts of
automatic editing would generate two (here incompatible) License-ID
entries.

Because of this I think there should be exactly one License-ID entry
in any file.  So for dual-licensed files the entry should list the
license IDs in a single entry.

> SPDX-License-Identifier:        GPL-2.0+, BSD-2-Clause
> 	Other seperator?

Yes, please let's just use white space for separation; this is easier
to parse by simple (shell) scripts.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-26 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-26 21:26 [U-Boot] dual licensed files Roger Meier
2013-07-26 21:45 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2013-10-08 19:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] SPDX: document dual license notation Wolfgang Denk
2013-10-08 20:47   ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-09  4:23     ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-10-09 15:59       ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-14 20:27   ` [U-Boot] " Tom Rini

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