On 07/02/20 13:24, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> In the past, the TianoCore Contribution Agreement provided equal to what
> the (+patent) gives us, but also for all the alternative licenses listed
> under "Code Contributions". When the contribution agreement was dropped,
> no conversation was had about this aspect.

Please see my wording questions under the blurb.

> 
> Until this issue is resolved, only code licensed under edk2+patent should
> be accepted into the project.
> 
> This addresses, but does not resolve,
> https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2834
> 
> Cc: Andrew Fish <af...@apple.com>
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kin...@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <l...@nuviainc.com>
> ---
>  ReadMe.rst | 13 ++-----------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ReadMe.rst b/ReadMe.rst
> index d597e34efc22..79f07240039e 100644
> --- a/ReadMe.rst
> +++ b/ReadMe.rst
> @@ -111,23 +111,14 @@ To make a contribution to a TianoCore project, follow 
> these steps.
>      that the project documents on its web page. If the process is
>      not documented, then submit the code on development email list
>      for the project.
> -#. It is preferred that contributions are submitted using the same
> -    copyright license as the base project. When that is not possible,
> -    then contributions using the following licenses can be accepted:
> -
> --  BSD (2-clause): http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
> --  BSD (3-clause): http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
> --  MIT: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
> --  Python-2.0: http://opensource.org/licenses/Python-2.0
> --  Zlib: http://opensource.org/licenses/Zlib
> +#. Contributions must be submitted using the same copyright license
> +    as the base project.
>  
>  For documentation:
>  
>  -  FreeBSD Documentation License
>      https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license.html
>  
> -Contributions of code put into the public domain can also be accepted.
> -
>  Contributions using other licenses might be accepted, but further
>  review will be required.
>  
> 

*IF* the problem you describe is real (honestly I've never *understood*
the problem statement before), then I think this change reflects that.
So here's a conditional:

Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>

I defer to Mike on this though, as Mike drove
<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1373>.

Thanks,
Laszlo


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