[libcamera-devel] [PATCH/RFC 00/11] Improve license information
Laurent Pinchart
laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Thu Feb 13 17:44:01 CET 2020
Hi Kieran,
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 04:41:38PM +0000, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> 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.
But they are also used to build the documentation, under CC-BY-SA-4.0,
the cam and qcam application, under GPL-2.0-or-later, the Android
metadata library, under Apache-2.0, ...
> > [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,
Laurent Pinchart
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