FS#65330 - [gnu-efi] License has changed from GPL to BSD
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Opened by Jonas Witschel (diabonas) - Thursday, 30 January 2020, 16:12 GMT
Last edited by David Runge (dvzrv) - Tuesday, 26 May 2020, 18:15 GMT
Opened by Jonas Witschel (diabonas) - Thursday, 30 January 2020, 16:12 GMT
Last edited by David Runge (dvzrv) - Tuesday, 26 May 2020, 18:15 GMT
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GNU EFI, packaged as gnu-efi-libs 3.0.11-1, is licensed
under a 3-clause BSD license, see
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnu-efi/code/ci/master/tree/README.efilib
The PKGBUILD has the license as GPL (v2 or later), which
used to be true
(https://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-programming/prepare.html),
but has changed in recent versions. Therefore the license
array needs to be changed to 'BSD' and the license file
needs to be added to the package:
license=('BSD') install -D -m0644 "${srcdir}/gnu-efi-${_pkgver}/README.efilib" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE" |
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Closed by David Runge (dvzrv)
Tuesday, 26 May 2020, 18:15 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Fixed with gnu-efi 3.0.12-1
Tuesday, 26 May 2020, 18:15 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Fixed with gnu-efi 3.0.12-1
Does it mean the license covers only these 2 directories? What about gnuefi that contains some assembly/linker code? Is it still GPL?
2011-04-07 Nigel Croxon <nigel.croxon@hp.com>
* Change license from GPL to BSD.
* Release 3.0j
Looking at the files in the other subdirectories, they have either no license at all, are licensed under BSD oder dual-licensed under BSD and GPL.