From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC981B1A8 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2017 18:30:00 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 08 Dec 2017 09:29:59 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.45,378,1508828400"; d="scan'208";a="10261839" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.241.225.68]) ([10.241.225.68]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 08 Dec 2017 09:29:58 -0800 To: Olivier Matz , dev@dpdk.org, Hemant Agrawal References: <20171208102830.2817-1-olivier.matz@6wind.com> From: Ferruh Yigit Cc: Thomas Monjalon Message-ID: Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 09:29:57 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171208102830.2817-1-olivier.matz@6wind.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net: update licence for network headers X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:30:00 -0000 On 12/8/2017 2:28 AM, Olivier Matz wrote: > To be compliant with the DPDK licensing guidelines, switch to > BSD-3-Clause. It can be done safely since the BSD headers from which > these files derive also exist as a BSD-3-Clause license in FreeBSD. > > Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freebsd/freebsd/78a6b0861813af31e1354fa407c5701e8764b4d6/sys/netinet/ip_icmp.h > Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freebsd/freebsd/78a6b0861813af31e1354fa407c5701e8764b4d6/sys/netinet/ip.h > Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freebsd/freebsd/78a6b0861813af31e1354fa407c5701e8764b4d6/sys/netinet/sctp.h > Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freebsd/freebsd/78a6b0861813af31e1354fa407c5701e8764b4d6/sys/netinet/tcp.h > Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freebsd/freebsd/78a6b0861813af31e1354fa407c5701e8764b4d6/sys/netinet/udp.h > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <...> > + * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause > * > - * @(#)in.h 8.3 (Berkeley) 1/3/94 > - * $FreeBSD: src/sys/netinet/in.h,v 1.82 2003/10/25 09:37:10 ume Exp $ > + * Copyright(c) 1982, 1986, 1990, 1993 > + * The Regents of the University of California. > + * Copyright(c) 2013 6WIND S.A. > + * All rights reserved. > */ Not sure how much it matters but in the document Hemant put, order is different, it starts with Copyright line instead of SPDX line: " Copyright (C) [YEAR] NAME-OF-COPYRIGHT-HOLDER SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause " So I assume for multiple Copyright holder: " Copyright (C) [YEAR] NAME-OF-COPYRIGHT-HOLDER Copyright (C) [YEAR] NAME-OF-COPYRIGHT-HOLDER-2 Copyright (C) [YEAR] NAME-OF-COPYRIGHT-HOLDER-3 SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause " And do we still need "All rights reserved." ? I am for following same syntax in all files (whichever is chosen), this may helps us in the future for scripting licensing checks. <...>