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| author | Sven Gothel <[email protected]> | 2020-04-29 14:42:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Sven Gothel <[email protected]> | 2020-04-29 14:42:55 +0200 |
| commit | 3df6239693ae0acdb0a067646fbacb99fcc2e5fe (patch) | |
| tree | 51557865d73393ecfc1a9b0452bd9a864582ee12 /COPYING | |
| parent | 91fa875cbf9e2f6407e6f19d2c89fd5af604d106 (diff) | |
Corrected COPYING and the *Ioctl.hpp (c) and license headers
Reinstated the original author's (c) and BSD/MIT license text.
Notice Qualcomm's original MIT license of the respective files.
Diffstat (limited to 'COPYING')
| -rw-r--r-- | COPYING | 22 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -33,24 +33,32 @@ The MIT License (MIT) (see above) Copyright © 2020 Gothel Software e.K. Copyright © 2020 ZAFENA AB -Tinyb2's direct_bt imports certain information from Linux Kernel's BlueZ protocol stack, -allowing the use of these kernel services via system calls. -Therefore, the license has been aligned with this project. - +Direct-BT imports certain information from Linux Kernel's BlueZ protocol stack, +originating from Qualcomm's sources under MIT license. +This information enables the use of certain kernel services via system calls. +Therefore, the license of this file has been aligned with this project's MIT license. + Related files are - <api/direct_bt/BTIoctl.hpp>, - <api/direct_bt/HCIIoctl.hpp> and - <api/direct_bt/L2CAPIoctl.hpp>. -See Linus Torvalds's Linux Kernel license exception regarding kernel syscalls (ioctl): +Notice Qualcomm's original MIT license of the respective files. + +Also notice Linus Torvalds's Linux Kernel license exception regarding kernel syscalls (ioctl): <https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note> +and therefor <https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.20/process/license-rules.html>. <quote> -NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel + NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". </quote> - + +Given the syscall usage and original file's MIT license, +we assume the following SPDX-License-Identifier should be declared: +"SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT" + ... This documentation of our usage is certainly a better than GOOG's approach: |