[U-Boot] [PATCH] libfdt: SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ BSD-2-Clause

[Roger Meier]

Hi Wolfgang

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:wd at denx.de]
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 28. Juli 2013 00:13
> An: Roger Meier
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Betreff: Re: [PATCH] libfdt: SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ BSD-2-Clause
> 
> Dear Roger,
> 
> In message <1374880358-7743-1-git-send-email-roger at bufferoverflow.ch>
> you wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Roger Meier <roger at bufferoverflow.ch>
> > ---
> >  Licenses/README              |   13 ++++++------
> >  Licenses/bsd-2-clause.txt    |   25 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  lib/libfdt/fdt.c             |   47 +-----------------------------------------
> >  lib/libfdt/fdt_empty_tree.c  |   47 +-----------------------------------------
> >  lib/libfdt/fdt_ro.c          |   47 +-----------------------------------------
> >  lib/libfdt/fdt_rw.c          |   47 +-----------------------------------------
> >  lib/libfdt/fdt_strerror.c    |   47 +-----------------------------------------
> >  lib/libfdt/fdt_sw.c          |   47 +-----------------------------------------
> >  lib/libfdt/fdt_wip.c         |   47 +-----------------------------------------
> >  lib/libfdt/libfdt_internal.h |   47 +-----------------------------------------
> >  10 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 374 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 Licenses/bsd-2-clause.txt
> 
> Thanks for pushing this forward.
> 
> I have but one comment:
> 
> > +BSD 2-Clause License				BSD-2-Clause	Y
> 		bsd-2-clause.txt	https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-
> Clause
> 
> I don;t really like picking up the original license text from a second
> source (SPDX here) - I'd rather refer to some "original" version
> published by the creator of the license.
> 
> Maybe we can find a better URI here?
I agree, original version only we already have the SPDX Identifier.

It's a difficult task with BSD licenses and I found no original source yet.
Official information from Berkeley University:
http://ipira.berkeley.edu/
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change

Other sources or information:
http://www.linfo.org/bsdlicense.html
http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html

should I rebase without an URL for BSD-2-Clause as long as we have the
license in text form anyway?

> 
> 
> Except for that:
> 
> Acked-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
Thanks!

-roger