Please signoff libabigail relicensing. Was "[PATCH 0/9 v2] Relicensing Libabigail to Apache 2.0 + LLVM Exception"

Dodji Seketeli dodji@redhat.com
Thu Sep 3 14:39:15 GMT 2020


Chenxiong Qi <cqi@redhat.com> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Chenxiong Qi <cqi@redhat.com>

Thank you Chenxiong!

I have updated the licensing branch accordingly!

Cheers!

>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 3:52 PM Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello fellow libabigail contributors!
>>
>> I hope you are doing well during these "interesting" times.
>>
>> I am sending you this message privately because from what I am seeing,
>> you haven't yet signed-off the actual libabigail relicensing message
>> that I have sent to the mailing list (and CCed you).  Unfortunately, I
>> really need your signed-off to proceed with the actual relicensing.
>>
>> Could you please just reply to the email below, CC-ing
>> libabigail@sourceware.org, with this line:
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: FirstName LastName <contributor@email.com>
>>
>> This would formally mean that you agree with the re-licensing and that
>> would allow me to proceed.
>>
>> Of course, you can look at the detail of all the relicensing patches if
>> you fancy and it would be appreciated!  I posted to patches to
>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libabigail/2020q3/002518.html.  But you
>> obviously don't have to.
>>
>> Thank you again for doing this and for supporting the libabigail
>> project.
>>
>> Stay strong!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Dodji Seketeli via Libabigail <libabigail@sourceware.org>
>> To: libabigail@sourceware.org
>> Cc:
>> Bcc:
>> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:02:19 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH 0/9 v2] Relicensing Libabigail to Apache 2.0 + LLVM Exception
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is the second version of the patch series to relicense the source
>> code of the Libabigail project to Apache 2.0 with LLVM Exception.
>>
>> The rationale and the process of this change was recently presented in
>> a message sent to the mailing list of the project at
>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libabigail/2020q2/002388.html.
>>
>> This patch series needs to be reviewed and acknowledged by all the
>> copyright holders who contributed to the project.  These contributors
>> are all listed in the CC field of this message.
>>
>> After the review, to acknowledge the change, each contributor needs to
>> reply to each one of the patches with a line containing this:
>>
>>      Signed-off-by: First Last <contributor@email.com>
>>
>> with First being her first name and Last being her last name.
>>
>> Of course, if a contributor reviewed and agrees with the content of
>> all the patches, she can just reply to this cover letter with the
>> Signed-off-by line above, saying that she is acknowledging the entire
>> patch set.
>>
>> I will apply each ACKed patch to the newly created branch of our Git
>> repository named "relicensing".
>>
>> Please note that all these steps were described in the announcement
>> message at
>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libabigail/2020q2/002388.html.
>>
>> Now, please find below a brief description of the patches of the
>> series.
>>
>> The first patch replaces the existing license headers of the files of
>> the project with SPDX identifier strings that formally represent those
>> current licenses.
>>
>> The second patch adds SPDX identifiers to the files that are missing
>> license headers.  The license of those files is thus "GNU Lesser
>> General Public License v3.0 or later", which is the default license of
>> the project.
>>
>> The third patch adds a helper script named
>> relicensing-scripts/has-spdx-header.sh which detects if a file as an
>> SPDX identifier or not.
>>
>> The fourth patch adds a helper script named
>> relicensing-scripts/replace-spdx-license.sh which replaces and SPDX
>> identifier by another one.
>>
>> The fifth patch adds a set of helper files assembled with the scripts
>> above.  For instance, one of those files lists the set of files of the
>> project, along with their respective licenses.  Another file just
>> lists the set of files that needs to be re-licensed.  The patch also
>> creates a script named relicensing-scripts/do-relicensing.sh which
>> performs the actual re-licensing off the files listed in one of the
>> helper files.
>>
>> The sixth patch is the actual relicensing. It's done using the script
>> relicensing-scripts/do-relicensing.sh introduced in the patch above.
>>
>> The seventh patch adds a LICENSE.txt file to the repository,
>> specifying the new license.
>>
>> The eighth patch removes the COPYING files which were specifying the
>> old license.
>>
>> The last patch adds a license-change-2020.txt file which states that
>> the license of the project was changed and which also names the
>> contributors who did agreed with the change.
>>
>> Dodji Seketeli (8):
>>   Add missing SPDX headers to source files not specifying any license
>>   Add has-spdx-header.sh script
>>   Add replace-spdx-license.sh script
>>   Add helper files to perform the re-licensing
>>   Re-license the project to Apache v2 With LLVM Exception
>>   Add the LICENSE.txt file
>>   Delete COPYING* files
>>   Add a license-change-2020.txt file
>>
>> Matthias Maennich (1):
>>   Replace individual license references with SPDX Identifiers
>>
>>  .clang-format                               |   1 +
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>>  COPYING-GPLV3                               | 674 ----------------------------
>>  COPYING-LGPLV2                              | 502 ---------------------
>>  COPYING-LGPLV3                              | 165 -------
>>  LICENSE.txt                                 | 219 +++++++++
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>>  include/abg-traverse.h                      |  17 +-
>>  include/abg-version.h.in                    |   1 +
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>>  include/abg-workers.h                       |  17 +-
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>>  install-sh                                  |  18 +-
>>  license-change-2020.txt                     |  37 ++
>>  ltmain.sh                                   |  22 +-
>>  relicensing-scripts/do-relicensing.sh       |   6 +
>>  relicensing-scripts/file-licenses.orig.txt  | 138 ++++++
>>  relicensing-scripts/files-with-lgplv3.txt   | 137 ++++++
>>  relicensing-scripts/has-spdx-header.sh      | 102 +++++
>>  relicensing-scripts/replace-spdx-license.sh |  75 ++++
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>>  src/abg-tools-utils.cc                      |  17 +-
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>>  tools/kmidiff.cc                            |  17 +-
>>  update-copyright.sh                         |   1 +
>>  154 files changed, 874 insertions(+), 3068 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 COPYING
>>  delete mode 100644 COPYING-GPLV3
>>  delete mode 100644 COPYING-LGPLV2
>>  delete mode 100644 COPYING-LGPLV3
>>  create mode 100644 LICENSE.txt
>>  create mode 100644 license-change-2020.txt
>>  create mode 100644 relicensing-scripts/do-relicensing.sh
>>  create mode 100644 relicensing-scripts/file-licenses.orig.txt
>>  create mode 100644 relicensing-scripts/files-with-lgplv3.txt
>>  create mode 100755 relicensing-scripts/has-spdx-header.sh
>>  create mode 100755 relicensing-scripts/replace-spdx-license.sh
>>
>> --
>> 1.8.3.1
>>
>>
>> --
>>                 Dodji
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>                 Dodji

-- 
		Dodji



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