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| author | Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> | 2013-10-08 21:53:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> | 2013-10-14 16:06:26 -0400 |
| commit | 17fd36c123038d2e6c9db679feef4d9e886cd4a4 (patch) | |
| tree | ecb07b8e3ac44cbc250ebf59e90d7c4953660ff4 | |
| parent | 4fa7613c50069b6821ace02b11a24b46dcbbec5e (diff) | |
SPDX: document dual license notation
In [1] we discussed how we should deal with dual (or, more generally,
multiple) licensed files. Add this to Licenses/README so it's
properly documented.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/166518
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
[trini: Add the word 'list' to the end of the line, per Stephen Warren's
feedback]
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Licenses/README | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Licenses/README b/Licenses/README index 9f61192557..c6ff2774fc 100644 --- a/Licenses/README +++ b/Licenses/README @@ -37,6 +37,18 @@ replaced by a single line: SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ +Ideally, the license terms of all files in the source tree should be +defined by such License Identifiers; in no case a file can contain +more than one such License Identifier list. + +If a "SPDX-License-Identifier:" line references more than one Unique +License Identifier, then this means that the respective file can be +used under the terms of either of these licenses, i. e. with + + SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ BSD-3-Clause + +you can chose between GPL-2.0+ and BSD-3-Clause licensing. + We use the SPDX Unique License Identifiers here; these are available at [2]. |