Re: git: 11a9ff5bc150 - main - libefivar: Replace BSD License with BSD+Patent License

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 18:22:11 UTC
On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 10:55 AM José Luis Durán <jlduran@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 27, 2022, at 2:11 PM, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 10:48 AM Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>
> The branch main has been updated by imp:
>
> URL:
> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=11a9ff5bc150bf555d4af58a658320fcf80abef9
>
> commit 11a9ff5bc150bf555d4af58a658320fcf80abef9
> Author:     Jose Luis Duran <jlduran@gmail.com>
> AuthorDate: 2022-02-24 00:54:02 +0000
> Commit:     Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2022-02-27 16:13:43 +0000
>
>    libefivar: Replace BSD License with BSD+Patent License
>
>    Replace BSD 2-Clause License with BSD+Patent License.  This change is
>    based on the following emails:
>
>      https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2019-February/036260.html
>      https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2018-October/030385.html
>
>    RFCs with detailed process for the license change:
>
>      V3: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2019-March/038116.html
>      V2: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2019-March/037669.html
>      V1: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2019-March/037500.html
>
>
> They seem to have switched to hyperkitty and these links don't work...
> not necessarily essential, but I was a bit curious.
>
>
> Other than what is summarized in the bug report (
> https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1373), I could not find
> what was discussed on the mailing lists, nor is there much information on
> the License-History.txt file (
> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/License-History.txt). As
> Warner pointed out, commit messages were kept almost verbatim from the
> original ones.
>

I did some digging, and all the edk2 archives are from April 2019, which
post dates these messages.
The sourceforge backup archive has disappeared.

But I was able to find the following. These are more the patches to make it
happen, but www.mail-archive.com could also be used to find the above
specific messages should someone have enough time and energy to overcome
the annoyances of the search engine interface:

https://www.mail-archive.com/edk2-devel@lists.01.org/msg52385.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/edk2-devel@lists.01.org/msg52836.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/edk2-devel@lists.01.org/msg52758.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/edk2-devel@lists.01.org/msg52757.html

as well as

https://www.mail-archive.com/edk2-devel@lists.01.org/msg53211.html

announcing the freeze for their repo to make the change.

Warner