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Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:08:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from draig.lan ([185.126.160.19]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-40fb72fb017sm19201532f8f.3.2025.09.29.11.08.42 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:08:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from draig (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by draig.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF1FA5F83A; Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:08:41 +0100 (BST) From: =?utf-8?Q?Alex_Benn=C3=A9e?= To: Tom Rini Cc: Daniel P. =?utf-8?Q?Berrang=C3=A9?= , u-boot@lists.denx.de, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] link principle license to COPYING In-Reply-To: <20250929165042.GJ6093@bill-the-cat> (Tom Rini's message of "Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:50:42 -0600") References: <20250929155142.1647606-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> <20250929165042.GJ6093@bill-the-cat> User-Agent: mu4e 1.12.14-dev1; emacs 30.1 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:08:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87tt0ljfme.fsf@draig.linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: u-boot@lists.denx.de X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.39 Precedence: list List-Id: U-Boot discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: u-boot-bounces@lists.denx.de Sender: "U-Boot" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.103.8 at phobos.denx.de X-Virus-Status: Clean Tom Rini writes: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 04:51:42PM +0100, Alex Benn=C3=A9e wrote: > >> Some license scanners are particularly dumb and when combined with >> automatic license scanning for FLOSS accreditation on forges cause >> problems on renewal. As GPL 2.0 applies to the core code link the main >> licence text to COPYING to keep everything happy. >>=20 >> This caused issues for the QEMU project recently as we mirror (two!) >> copies of u-boot in our project. >>=20 >> Signed-off-by: Alex Benn=C3=A9e > > Since Daniel Berrang=C3=A9 posted a similar patch 3 days ago, I assume the > gitlab license renewal is coming up quickly. We fixed it by temporally moving the repo to another project (although it seems that is not a true mirror as mirroing needs the full paid GitLab). However it broke a bunch of down-streams tracking earlier branches. > > In principal, I'm fine with this and will apply a patch shortly. > > In practice, we've always had to get a human involved at Gitlab to get > our license renewed as we're clearly within the required terms, it's > just that we've also got some further reading people should do. The GitLab process is a click though automated one now. However I did check GitLab identifies the right license with the patch: https://gitlab.com/stsquad/u-boot/ --=20 Alex Benn=C3=A9e Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro