Merge branch 'ben-211101-relicensing' into 'master'

sdbfs: relicense lib to LGPL v2.1 See merge request !1

Merge branch 'ben-211101-relicensing' into 'master'
sdbfs: relicense lib to LGPL v2.1 See merge request !1
9ea3f728 · Juan David González Cobas · 3f8de992 · df49a798 · 9ea3f728 · 9ea3f728
Commit 9ea3f728 authored Nov 03, 2021 by Juan David González Cobas
7 changed files
--- a/sdbfs/COPYING
+++ b/sdbfs/COPYING
--- a/sdbfs/COPYING.LGPLv2.1
+++ b/sdbfs/COPYING.LGPLv2.1
--- a/sdbfs/README
+++ b/sdbfs/README
@@ -27,3 +27,10 @@ The thing is split in three parts
 Since SDB is used to self-describe a bus, you can even mount sdbfs
 over a real bus. In this case however only mmap is allowed on the
 individual files (no read or write method is there).
+LICENSES:
+=========
+* The sdbfs library is released under LGPL v2.1 license and can be included as a library into proprietary binaries.
+* The userspace tools and kernel drivers are released under GPL v2 library.
\ No newline at end of file
--- a/sdbfs/include/linux/sdb.h
+++ b/sdbfs/include/linux/sdb.h
 /*
 * This is the official version 1.1 of sdb.h
+ *
+ * Released to the public domain
 */
 #ifndef __SDB_H__
 #define __SDB_H__

--- a/sdbfs/lib/access.c
+++ b/sdbfs/lib/access.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 * Copyright (C) 2012,2013 CERN (www.cern.ch)
 * Author: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
 *
- * Released according to the GNU GPL, version 2 or any later version.
+ * Released according to GNU LGPL, version 2.1 or any later
 *
 * This work is part of the White Rabbit project, a research effort led
 * by CERN, the European Institute for Nuclear Research.

--- a/sdbfs/lib/glue.c
+++ b/sdbfs/lib/glue.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 * Copyright (C) 2012,2014 CERN (www.cern.ch)
 * Author: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
 *
- * Released according to the GNU GPL, version 2 or any later version.
+ * Released according to GNU LGPL, version 2.1 or any later
 *
 * This work is part of the White Rabbit project, a research effort led
 * by CERN, the European Institute for Nuclear Research.

--- a/sdbfs/lib/libsdbfs.h
+++ b/sdbfs/lib/libsdbfs.h
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2012,2014 CERN (www.cern.ch)
+ * Author: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
+ *
+ * Released according to GNU LGPL, version 2.1 or any later
+ *
+ */
 #ifndef __LIBSDBFS_H__
 #define __LIBSDBFS_H__
 /* The library can work in different environments, take care of them */
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 #  include "libsdbfs-kernel.h"