license: clarify the licensing for the project's metadata
PATCH 1/1 license: clarify the licensing for the project's metadata
From: Dima Zavin <[email protected]>
Presently, the recipe files in meta-freescale are under an ambiguous license. There is a EULA file at the root, but it's clearly not meant to apply as the default license as it is only explicitly called out in a few recipes and mirrors the language of the LSDK. The yocto upstream projects are meant to be distributed under a more liberal license than the LSDK.
There are several licenses listed is custom-licenses/, but those again only apply to specific recipes (e.g. NXP-Binary-EULA).
The license for the recipes themselves (and for the layer metadata, etc.) is not clear and is problematic when attempting to host a mirror of this code. So, add a LICENSE file that describes this situation, and provide a reference copy of the MIT license (taken from poky/meta/).
--- COPYING.MIT | 17 +++++++++++++++++ LICENSE | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 COPYING.MIT create mode 100644 LICENSE
COPYING.MIT new file +17 -0
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy +of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal +in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights +to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell +copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is +furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: + +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in +all copies or substantial portions of the Software. + +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR +IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, +FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE +AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER +LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, +OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN +THE SOFTWARE.
LICENSE new file +12 -0
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Different components of meta-freescale are under different licenses (a mix +of MIT and proprietary). Please see: + +COPYING.MIT (MIT) +custom-licenses/* (Various EULAs, included by recipes) + +All metadata is MIT licensed unless otherwise stated. Source code and binaries +included in tree for individual recipes are under the LICENSE stated in +the associated recipe (.bb file) unless otherwise stated. + +License information for any other files is either explicitly stated +or defaults to GPL version 2.
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