[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Add more license tags with SPDX identifiers

Michael Heimpold mhei at heimpold.de
Mon Nov 3 16:00:03 EST 2014


Am Montag, 3. November 2014, 10:58:20 schrieb John Crispin:

> turns out that this adds duplicate info. i think someone needs to go
> over this with a fine comb before we merge it.
> 

Arghh ... you are right, overlooked this totally.
Will clean up and re-post.

Sorry for the noise,
Michael


> 	John
> 
> On 02/11/2014 20:54, Michael Heimpold wrote:
> > Note, that licensing stuff is a nightmare: many packages does not
> > clearly state their licenses, and often multiple source files are
> > simply copied together - each with different licensing information
> > in the file headers.
> > 
> > I tried hard to ensure, that the license information extracted into
> > the OpenWRT's makefiles fit the "spirit" of the packages, e.g. such
> > small packages which come without a dedicated source archive
> > "inherites" the OpenWRT's own license in my opinion.
> > 
> > However, I can not garantee that I always picked the correct
> > information and/or did not miss license information.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Heimpold <mhei at heimpold.de> ---
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this is a rebased version of the patch I sent in June, see 
> > http://patchwork.openwrt.org/patch/5636
> > 
> > Changes can also be pulled from
> > https://github.com/mhei/openwrt/tree/spdx
> > 
> > Regards, Michael
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