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[ovs-dev,v2] Edit Open vSwitch license info so that GitHub recognizes it.

Message ID 20180413180939.26506-1-blp@ovn.org
State Accepted
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Series [ovs-dev,v2] Edit Open vSwitch license info so that GitHub recognizes it. | expand

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Ben Pfaff April 13, 2018, 6:09 p.m. UTC
From: Andrea Kao <eirinikos@gmail.com>

GitHub uses a library called Licensee to identify a project's license
type. It shows this information in the status bar and via the API if it
can unambiguously identify the license.

This commit creates a LICENSE file that stores the full text of the
Apache license. It also removes the COPYING file and transfers its
contents to a new "License" section in the README.

Collectively, these changes allow Licensee to successfully identify the
license type of Open vSwitch's codebase as Apache.

Submitted-at: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/pull/224
Signed-off-by: Andrea Kao <eirinikos@gmail.com>
[blp@ovn.org removed references to COPYING and updated Makefile.am]
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
---
v1->v2: I removed references to COPYING from the tree and updated
Makefile.am to distribute the new LICENSE file.

 COPYING                         |  42 ---------
 LICENSE                         | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 Makefile.am                     |   1 +
 README.rst                      |  33 +++++++
 debian/rules                    |   3 +-
 rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in |   4 +-
 rhel/openvswitch.spec.in        |   2 +-
 7 files changed, 228 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 COPYING
 create mode 100644 LICENSE

Comments

Aaron Conole April 13, 2018, 7:04 p.m. UTC | #1
Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> writes:

> From: Andrea Kao <eirinikos@gmail.com>
>
> GitHub uses a library called Licensee to identify a project's license
> type. It shows this information in the status bar and via the API if it
> can unambiguously identify the license.
>
> This commit creates a LICENSE file that stores the full text of the
> Apache license. It also removes the COPYING file and transfers its
> contents to a new "License" section in the README.
>
> Collectively, these changes allow Licensee to successfully identify the
> license type of Open vSwitch's codebase as Apache.
>
> Submitted-at: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/pull/224
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Kao <eirinikos@gmail.com>
> [blp@ovn.org removed references to COPYING and updated Makefile.am]
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
> ---

According to the Licensee[1] code, it should be good enough to put the
exact text of the Apache 2.0 license into the COPYING file.  Then again
COPYING is a GNU-ism, afaik.  So either way:

Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>

As a side note, as I start editing files, I'll add SPDX identifiers if
others think it makes sense.

[1]: https://github.com/benbalter/licensee/blob/master/lib/licensee/project_files/license_file.rb
Ben Pfaff April 16, 2018, 8:02 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 03:04:11PM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
> Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> writes:
> 
> > From: Andrea Kao <eirinikos@gmail.com>
> >
> > GitHub uses a library called Licensee to identify a project's license
> > type. It shows this information in the status bar and via the API if it
> > can unambiguously identify the license.
> >
> > This commit creates a LICENSE file that stores the full text of the
> > Apache license. It also removes the COPYING file and transfers its
> > contents to a new "License" section in the README.
> >
> > Collectively, these changes allow Licensee to successfully identify the
> > license type of Open vSwitch's codebase as Apache.
> >
> > Submitted-at: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/pull/224
> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Kao <eirinikos@gmail.com>
> > [blp@ovn.org removed references to COPYING and updated Makefile.am]
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
> > ---
> 
> According to the Licensee[1] code, it should be good enough to put the
> exact text of the Apache 2.0 license into the COPYING file.  Then again
> COPYING is a GNU-ism, afaik.  

Ack on that.  I'm surprised when I see a file named COPYING that does
not contain GPLv2 or v3.

> So either way:
> 
> Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>

Thanks.  I applied this to master.

> As a side note, as I start editing files, I'll add SPDX identifiers if
> others think it makes sense.

Sure, thanks.
Andrea Kao April 17, 2018, 7:48 p.m. UTC | #3
Thanks, Ben and Aaron.

And Aaron, you're right - I agree it should've been good enough to put the
exact text of the Apache license into the COPYING file. In any case, it
looks like Licensee has finally been satisfied.

2018-04-16 13:02 GMT-07:00 Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 03:04:11PM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
> > Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> writes:
> >
> > > From: Andrea Kao <eirinikos@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > GitHub uses a library called Licensee to identify a project's license
> > > type. It shows this information in the status bar and via the API if it
> > > can unambiguously identify the license.
> > >
> > > This commit creates a LICENSE file that stores the full text of the
> > > Apache license. It also removes the COPYING file and transfers its
> > > contents to a new "License" section in the README.
> > >
> > > Collectively, these changes allow Licensee to successfully identify the
> > > license type of Open vSwitch's codebase as Apache.
> > >
> > > Submitted-at: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/pull/224
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Kao <eirinikos@gmail.com>
> > > [blp@ovn.org removed references to COPYING and updated Makefile.am]
> > > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
> > > ---
> >
> > According to the Licensee[1] code, it should be good enough to put the
> > exact text of the Apache 2.0 license into the COPYING file.  Then again
> > COPYING is a GNU-ism, afaik.
>
> Ack on that.  I'm surprised when I see a file named COPYING that does
> not contain GPLv2 or v3.
>
> > So either way:
> >
> > Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
>
> Thanks.  I applied this to master.
>
> > As a side note, as I start editing files, I'll add SPDX identifiers if
> > others think it makes sense.
>
> Sure, thanks.
>
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diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
deleted file mode 100644
index afb98b9d7dd8..000000000000
--- a/COPYING
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ 
-This file is a summary of the licensing of files in this distribution.
-Some files may be marked specifically with a different license, in
-which case that license applies to the file in question.
-
-Most files are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0:
-
-    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-    You may obtain a copy of the License at:
-
-        http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-    limitations under the License.
-
-Files under the datapath directory are licensed under the GNU General
-Public License, version 2.
-
-File build-aux/cccl is licensed under the GNU General Public
-License, version 2.
-
-The following files are licensed under the 2-clause BSD license.
-    include/windows/getopt.h
-    lib/getopt_long.c
-    lib/conntrack-tcp.c
-
-The following files are licensed under the 3-clause BSD-license
-    include/windows/netinet/icmp6.h
-    include/windows/netinet/ip6.h
-    lib/strsep.c
-
-Files under the xenserver directory are licensed on a file-by-file
-basis.  Refer to each file for details.
-
-Files lib/sflow*.[ch] are licensed under the terms of either the
-Sun Industry Standards Source License 1.1, that is available at:
-        http://host-sflow.sourceforge.net/sissl.html
-or the InMon sFlow License, that is available at:
-        http://www.inmon.com/technology/sflowlicense.txt
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4ba8cc0c88b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ 
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diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 8f32d14397f0..be4de00a8be0 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@  PYCOV_CLEAN_FILES = build-aux/check-structs,cover
 EXTRA_DIST = \
 	AUTHORS.rst \
 	CONTRIBUTING.rst \
+	LICENSE \
 	MAINTAINERS.rst \
 	README.rst \
 	NOTICE \
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 251e2bbe1de8..4c9d9edddcee 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -94,6 +94,39 @@  Each Open vSwitch userspace program is accompanied by a manpage.  Many of the
 manpages are customized to your configuration as part of the build process, so
 we recommend building Open vSwitch before reading the manpages.
 
+License
+-------
+
+The following is a summary of the licensing of files in this distribution.
+As mentioned, Open vSwitch is licensed under the open source Apache 2 license.
+Some files may be marked specifically with a different license, in which case
+that license applies to the file in question.
+
+
+Files under the datapath directory are licensed under the GNU General Public
+License, version 2.
+
+File build-aux/cccl is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
+
+The following files are licensed under the 2-clause BSD license.
+    include/windows/getopt.h
+    lib/getopt_long.c
+    lib/conntrack-tcp.c
+
+The following files are licensed under the 3-clause BSD-license
+    include/windows/netinet/icmp6.h
+    include/windows/netinet/ip6.h
+    lib/strsep.c
+
+Files under the xenserver directory are licensed on a file-by-file basis.
+Refer to each file for details.
+
+Files lib/sflow*.[ch] are licensed under the terms of either the
+Sun Industry Standards Source License 1.1, that is available at:
+        http://host-sflow.sourceforge.net/sissl.html
+or the InMon sFlow License, that is available at:
+        http://www.inmon.com/technology/sflowlicense.txt
+
 Contact
 -------
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index c847d2853f42..9d0a81f1a738 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -86,8 +86,7 @@  override_dh_install-indep:
 	rm -rf debian/$(PACKAGE_DKMS)/usr/src/$(PACKAGE)-$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM)/rhel
 	# And we should also clean useless license files, which are already
 	# described in our debian/copyright anyway.
-	rm -f debian/$(PACKAGE_DKMS)/usr/src/$(PACKAGE)-$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM)/COPYING \
-		debian/$(PACKAGE_DKMS)/usr/src/$(PACKAGE)-$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM)/xenserver/LICENSE
+	rm -f debian/$(PACKAGE_DKMS)/usr/src/$(PACKAGE)-$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM)/xenserver/LICENSE
 
 override_dh_installinit:
 	dh_installinit -R
diff --git a/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in b/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in
index 4f2398d977b1..658eb206cc78 100644
--- a/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in
+++ b/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in
@@ -485,12 +485,10 @@  fi
 
 %files -n %{_py2}-openvswitch
 %{python2_sitelib}/ovs
-%doc COPYING
 
 %if 0%{?fedora} > 22 || %{with build_python3}
 %files -n python3-openvswitch
 %{python3_sitelib}/ovs
-%doc COPYING
 %endif
 
 %files test
@@ -584,7 +582,7 @@  fi
 %if %{with dpdk}
 %{_prefix}/lib/udev/rules.d/91-vfio.rules
 %endif
-%doc COPYING NOTICE README.rst NEWS rhel/README.RHEL.rst
+%doc NOTICE README.rst NEWS rhel/README.RHEL.rst
 /var/lib/openvswitch
 %attr(755,-,-) /var/log/openvswitch
 %ghost %attr(755,root,root) %{_rundir}/openvswitch
diff --git a/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in b/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in
index f353a4bfacd1..2c5f0409a078 100644
--- a/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in
+++ b/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@  exit 0
 /usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/sysconfig.template
 /usr/share/openvswitch/vswitch.ovsschema
 /usr/share/openvswitch/vtep.ovsschema
-%doc COPYING NOTICE README.rst NEWS rhel/README.RHEL.rst
+%doc NOTICE README.rst NEWS rhel/README.RHEL.rst
 /var/lib/openvswitch
 /var/log/openvswitch