[libcamera-devel] [PATCH/RFC 00/11] Improve license information

[Kieran Bingham]

Hi Laurent,

On 13/02/2020 15:36, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The REUSE specification [1] defines a standardized method for declaring
> copyright and licensing information, based on SPDX. It comes with a
> compliance tool that can check for compliance and produce reports, as
> well as licensing information to generate packages.
> 
> libcamera already uses SPDX tags to specify license information, but we
> haven't been using them very consistently, as shown by the "reuse lint"
> tool. This series is an initial step towards REUSE compliance, and fixes
> a few real issues.
> 
> I've marked the patches as RFC as it's not clear to me how far we need
> to go. Adding an SPDX header to include/linux/README, for instance,
> seems overkill to me. I'm also not sure what license to pick for
> meson.build files. Comments are more than welcome.

Meson.build files are part of the build system required to build the
library, so I agree on LGPL.

I think that would include the ebuild files, or anything we create to
actually generate libcamera.

--
Kieran



> [1] https://reuse.software/spec/
> 
> Laurent Pinchart (11):
>   licenses: Rename license files according to REUSE
>   licenses: Add missing licenses
>   licenses: Remove unused LGPL-2.1
>   licenses: Replace deprecated GPL-2.0 with GPL-2.0-only
>   licenses: Move developer's certificate of origin to Documentation/
>   licenses: Add SPDX headers to RST documentation
>   licenses: Add SPDX headers to Doxygen configuration
>   licenses: Add SPDX headers to the website builder and theme
>   licenses: Add SPDX headers to all meson files
>   licenses: Add SPDX headers to the git commit hook scripts
>   licenses: Add SPDX headers to Gentoo ebuild
> 
>  .clang-format                                 |   2 +-
>  .gitignore                                    |   2 +
>  Documentation/Doxyfile.in                     |   1 +
>  Documentation/api-html/index.rst              |   2 +
>  Documentation/coding-style.rst                |   2 +
>  Documentation/conf.py                         |   1 +
>  Documentation/contributing.rst                |   2 +
>  .../developer-certificate-of-origin.txt       |   0
>  Documentation/docs.rst                        |   2 +
>  Documentation/index.rst                       |   2 +
>  Documentation/meson.build                     |   2 +
>  Documentation/theme/footer.html               |   3 +
>  Documentation/theme/layout.html               |   3 +
>  Documentation/theme/search.html               |   3 +
>  Documentation/theme/static/css/theme.css      |   2 +
>  Documentation/theme/theme.conf                |   2 +
>  .../apache-2.0.txt => LICENSES/Apache-2.0.txt |   0
>  LICENSES/BSD-3-Clause.txt                     |  26 +
>  .../CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt                          |   0
>  LICENSES/GPL-2.0+.txt                         |   1 +
>  .../GPL-2.0-only.txt                          |   0
>  LICENSES/GPL-2.0-or-later.txt                 | 319 +++++++++++
>  LICENSES/GPL-2.0.txt                          |   1 +
>  LICENSES/LGPL-2.1-or-later.txt                | 468 ++++++++++++++++
>  LICENSES/Linux-syscall-note.txt               |   5 +
>  LICENSES/MIT.txt                              |  19 +
>  README.rst                                    |   2 +
>  include/android/meson.build                   |   2 +
>  include/ipa/meson.build                       |   2 +
>  include/libcamera/meson.build                 |   2 +
>  include/meson.build                           |   2 +
>  licenses/gnu-lgpl-2.1.txt                     | 502 ------------------
>  meson.build                                   |   2 +
>  meson_options.txt                             |   2 +
>  .../libcamera/libcamera-9999.ebuild           |   2 +-
>  src/android/meson.build                       |   2 +
>  src/cam/meson.build                           |   2 +
>  src/ipa/libipa/meson.build                    |   2 +
>  src/ipa/meson.build                           |   2 +
>  src/ipa/rkisp1/meson.build                    |   2 +
>  src/libcamera/include/meson.build             |   2 +
>  src/libcamera/meson.build                     |   2 +
>  src/libcamera/pipeline/ipu3/meson.build       |   2 +
>  src/libcamera/pipeline/meson.build            |   2 +
>  src/libcamera/pipeline/rkisp1/meson.build     |   2 +
>  src/libcamera/proxy/meson.build               |   2 +
>  src/libcamera/proxy/worker/meson.build        |   2 +
>  src/meson.build                               |   2 +
>  src/qcam/meson.build                          |   2 +
>  src/v4l2/meson.build                          |   2 +
>  test/camera/meson.build                       |   2 +
>  test/controls/meson.build                     |   2 +
>  test/ipa/meson.build                          |   2 +
>  test/ipc/meson.build                          |   2 +
>  test/libtest/meson.build                      |   2 +
>  test/log/meson.build                          |   2 +
>  test/media_device/meson.build                 |   2 +
>  test/meson.build                              |   2 +
>  test/pipeline/ipu3/meson.build                |   2 +
>  test/pipeline/meson.build                     |   2 +
>  test/pipeline/rkisp1/meson.build              |   2 +
>  test/process/meson.build                      |   2 +
>  test/serialization/meson.build                |   2 +
>  test/stream/meson.build                       |   2 +
>  test/v4l2_subdevice/meson.build               |   2 +
>  test/v4l2_videodevice/meson.build             |   2 +
>  utils/hooks/post-commit                       |   2 +
>  utils/hooks/pre-commit                        |   2 +
>  utils/ipu3/meson.build                        |   2 +
>  utils/meson.build                             |   2 +
>  70 files changed, 954 insertions(+), 504 deletions(-)
>  rename {licenses => Documentation}/developer-certificate-of-origin.txt (100%)
>  rename licenses/apache-2.0.txt => LICENSES/Apache-2.0.txt (100%)
>  create mode 100644 LICENSES/BSD-3-Clause.txt
>  rename licenses/cc-by-sa-v4.0.txt => LICENSES/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt (100%)
>  create mode 120000 LICENSES/GPL-2.0+.txt
>  rename licenses/gnu-gpl-2.0.txt => LICENSES/GPL-2.0-only.txt (100%)
>  create mode 100644 LICENSES/GPL-2.0-or-later.txt
>  create mode 120000 LICENSES/GPL-2.0.txt
>  create mode 100644 LICENSES/LGPL-2.1-or-later.txt
>  create mode 100644 LICENSES/Linux-syscall-note.txt
>  create mode 100644 LICENSES/MIT.txt
>  delete mode 100644 licenses/gnu-lgpl-2.1.txt
> 

-- 
Regards
--
Kieran