[U-Boot] dual licensed files
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Fri Jul 26 23:45:45 CEST 2013
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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