In [1] we discussed how we should deal with dual (or, more generally, multiple) licensed files. Add this to Licenses/README so it's properly documented.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/166518
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de --- Licenses/README | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Licenses/README b/Licenses/README index 9f61192..6dd7d5b 100644 --- a/Licenses/README +++ b/Licenses/README @@ -37,6 +37,18 @@ replaced by a single line:
SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+Ideally, the license terms of all files in the source tree should be +defined by such License Identifiers; in no case a file can contain +more than one such License Identifier. + +If a "SPDX-License-Identifier:" line references more than one Unique +License Identifier, then this means that the respective file can be +used under the terms of either of these licenses, i. e. with + + SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ BSD-3-Clause + +you can chose between GPL-2.0+ and BSD-3-Clause licensing. + We use the SPDX Unique License Identifiers here; these are available at [2].