[RFC PATCH] link principle license to COPYING

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 04:51:42PM +0100, Alex Bennée 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.
> 
> This caused issues for the QEMU project recently as we mirror (two!)
> copies of u-boot in our project.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee at linaro.org>

Since Daniel Berrangé posted a similar patch 3 days ago, I assume the
gitlab license renewal is coming up quickly.

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.

-- 
Tom
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