The license/exceptions.txt file lists a small number of files
that have licenses that are exceptions to the three main
licenses defined in the Intellectual Property Policy of the
DPDK Charter.
The three exception licenses are MIT, ISC and BSD-2-Clause.
Each of these licenses states that the content of the license
message should be included in the code distribution. This
change adds the text of the MIT, ISC and BSD-2-Clause licenses
as defined on the SPDX website.
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
This patch removes the dual keyword from dual license
definitions to avoid confusion. As the *dual* word is
not required to be added SPDX license.
Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Since the kernel modules are moved to kernel/ directory,
there is no need anymore for the sub-directory eal/ in
linux/, freebsd/ and windows/.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
This patch adds SPDX license tag to pmdinfogen files.
These files are originally drived from kernel.
They are being used as binary tool to support internal
build.
This patch requires license exception approval from
DPDK Technical Board and Governing Board.
Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
The Governing Board and Tech Board have provided exceptions for
MIT and BSD-2-Clause license files for DPDK support on Windows.
Signed-off-by: Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ranjit Menon <ranjit.menon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Remove trailing blank lines. They serve no purpose and are just
editor leftovers.
These can cause git to complain about whitespace errors during merges.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
The DPDK website has a new URL scheme since June 2018.
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
The DPDK uses the Open Source BSD-3-Clause license for the core libraries
and drivers. The kernel components are naturally GPLv2 licensed.
Many of the files in the DPDK source code contain the full text of the
applicable license. For example, most of the BSD-3-Clause files contain a
full copy of the BSD-3-Clause license text.
Including big blocks of License headers in all files blows up the source
code with mostly redundant information. An additional problem is that even
the same licenses are referred to by a number of slightly varying text
blocks (full, abbreviated, different indentation, line wrapping and/or
white space, with obsolete address information, ...) which makes validation
and automatic processing a nightmare.
To make this easier, DPDK uses of a single line reference to
Unique License Identifiers in source files as defined by the Linux
Foundation's SPDX project https://spdk.org.
Adding license information in this fashion, rather than adding full license
text, can be more efficient for developers; decreases errors; and improves
automated detection of licenses. The current set of valid, predefined SPDX
identifiers is set forth on the SPDX License List at
https://spdx.org/licenses/.
For example, to label a file as subject to the BSD-3-Clause license,
the following text would be used as the top line of the file.
SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
Note: Any new file contributions in DPDK shall adhere to the above scheme.
It is also recommended to replace or at least amend the existing license
text in the code with SPDX-License-Identifiers.
Any exception to DPDK IP policies shall be approved by DPDK tech board and
DPDK Governing Board. Steps for any exception approval:
1. Mention the appropriate license identifier form SPDX. If the license is
not listed in SPDX Licenses. It is the submitters responsibiliity to get
it first listed.
2. Get the required approval from the DPDK Technical Board. Technical board
may advise the author to check alternate means first. If no other
alternatives are found and the merit of the contributions are important
for DPDK's mission, it may decide on such exception with two-thirds vote
of the members.
3. Technical board then approach Governing board for such limited approval
for the given contribution only.
Any approvals shall be documented in "licenses/exceptions.txt" with record
dates.
Note: From the legal point of view, this patch is supposed to be only a
change to the textual representation of the license information, but in no
way any change to the actual license terms. With this patch applied, all
files will still be licensed under the same terms they were before.
Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
