[U-Boot] SPDX header might be wrong in 4 files from Android Open Source Project

[Igor Opaniuk]

+ Alex Deymo

Hi Zdenek

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 6:05 PM zdenek.bouska at siemens.com
<zdenek.bouska at siemens.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause might be wrong in the following 4 files from Android Open Source Project (AOSP):
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> include/android_bootloader_message.h
> include/sparse_format.h
> include/dt_table.h
> include/android_image.h

they were re-licensed by one of the Google employees specifically for
U-boot [1].

>
> As you can see in the comments the content is from AOSP.
>
> But these files have Apache License, Version 2.0 in AOSP:
> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bootable/recovery/+/master/bootloader_message/include/bootloader_message/bootloader_message.h
> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/28fa5bc347390480fe190294c6c385b6a9f0d68b/libsparse/sparse_format.h
> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/libufdt/+/2626d8b9e4d8e8c6cc67ceb1dc4e05a47779785c/utils/src/dt_table.h
> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/tools/mkbootimg/+/e55998a0f2b61b685d5eb4a486ca3a0c680b1a2f/include/bootimg/bootimg.h
>
> I am afraid, that there could be a license compatibility problem with creating one binary from both source files with GPL2-only license and source files with Apache 2 license.
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> Am I wrong? Is it possible to re-license from Apache 2 to BSD 3 license if there are only simple structs and defines in those files?
> With best regards,
> Zdenek Bouska
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[1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1099689/

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