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| author | Andrea Kao <eirinikos@gmail.com> | 2018-04-13 11:09:39 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> | 2018-04-16 13:00:56 -0700 |
| commit | 888cf44d67fc20c26382700f0bcfaaf16fa03667 (patch) | |
| tree | c8e702e2e2b4062d1fef6c0533eb17b8dd0d2c49 /README.rst | |
| parent | 1ea1b0d09ff49cf33fbdc6e7a789f6bed9a7d907 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-888cf44d67fc20c26382700f0bcfaaf16fa03667.tar.gz | |
Edit Open vSwitch license info so that GitHub recognizes it.
GitHub uses a library called Licensee to identify a project's license
type. It shows this information in the status bar and via the API if it
can unambiguously identify the license.
This commit creates a LICENSE file that stores the full text of the
Apache license. It also removes the COPYING file and transfers its
contents to a new "License" section in the README.
Collectively, these changes allow Licensee to successfully identify the
license type of Open vSwitch's codebase as Apache.
Submitted-at: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/pull/224
Signed-off-by: Andrea Kao <eirinikos@gmail.com>
[blp@ovn.org removed references to COPYING and updated Makefile.am]
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'README.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.rst | 33 |
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 251e2bbe1..4c9d9eddd 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -94,6 +94,39 @@ Each Open vSwitch userspace program is accompanied by a manpage. Many of the manpages are customized to your configuration as part of the build process, so we recommend building Open vSwitch before reading the manpages. +License +------- + +The following is a summary of the licensing of files in this distribution. +As mentioned, Open vSwitch is licensed under the open source Apache 2 license. +Some files may be marked specifically with a different license, in which case +that license applies to the file in question. + + +Files under the datapath directory are licensed under the GNU General Public +License, version 2. + +File build-aux/cccl is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2. + +The following files are licensed under the 2-clause BSD license. + include/windows/getopt.h + lib/getopt_long.c + lib/conntrack-tcp.c + +The following files are licensed under the 3-clause BSD-license + include/windows/netinet/icmp6.h + include/windows/netinet/ip6.h + lib/strsep.c + +Files under the xenserver directory are licensed on a file-by-file basis. +Refer to each file for details. + +Files lib/sflow*.[ch] are licensed under the terms of either the +Sun Industry Standards Source License 1.1, that is available at: + http://host-sflow.sourceforge.net/sissl.html +or the InMon sFlow License, that is available at: + http://www.inmon.com/technology/sflowlicense.txt + Contact ------- |