[PATCH v2 0/7] Relicense GPL programs for compatibility with OpenSSL

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Fri Sep 18 04:19:49 EDT 2020


Hello,

this series addresses the problem that binaries licensed under plain GPL
and linked to OpenSSL cannot be distributed. To allow this a special
exception by the copyright holders is needed[1].

The changes since (implicit) v1 sent with
Message-Id: 20200915205417.15484-1-u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de:

 - added acks
 - rename OpenSSL-exception to LicenseRef-OpenSSL-exception as suggested by
   Roland
 - s/GPL-2.0+/GPL-2.0-or-later/ in rsatoc; similar changes also in the
   license text copied from Linux to not use the names deprecated by
   SPDX.
 - dropped Eric Bénard, his address isn't working any more. Tried to contact
   via other means, no feedback yet.

[1] I'm not a lawyer but I know that software distributed by Debian
    requires this.

Uwe Kleine-König (7):
  scripts/spdxcheck: fix usage of non-existing variables
  LICENSES: add used licenses to make spdxcheck happy
  scripts: convert imx-image and mxsimage to SPDX
  LICENSES: add OpenSSL exception
  scripts/rsatoc: relicense to allow distribution of binary linked with
    OpenSSL
  scripts/imx-image: relicense to allow distribution of binary linked
    with OpenSSL
  scripts/mxsimage: relicense to allow distribution of binary linked
    with OpenSSL

 LICENSES/deprecated/ISC                       |  24 +
 LICENSES/deprecated/X11                       |  37 ++
 LICENSES/dual/Apache-2.0                      | 187 +++++++
 .../exceptions/LicenseRef-OpenSSL-exception   |  12 +
 LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note        |  25 +
 LICENSES/preferred/BSD-2-Clause               |  32 ++
 LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0                    |   8 +-
 LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1                   | 503 ++++++++++++++++++
 LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1-or-later          | 468 ----------------
 scripts/imx/imx-image.c                       |  17 +-
 scripts/mxsimage.c                            |  11 +-
 scripts/rsatoc.c                              |   2 +-
 scripts/spdxcheck.py                          |   7 +-
 13 files changed, 834 insertions(+), 499 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 LICENSES/deprecated/ISC
 create mode 100644 LICENSES/deprecated/X11
 create mode 100644 LICENSES/dual/Apache-2.0
 create mode 100644 LICENSES/exceptions/LicenseRef-OpenSSL-exception
 create mode 100644 LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note
 create mode 100644 LICENSES/preferred/BSD-2-Clause
 create mode 100644 LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1
 delete mode 100644 LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1-or-later

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