[PATCH v2] Add LICENSE.BSD-2-Clause

[Chris Johns]

On 23/11/2018 17:34, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 23/11/2018 07:13, Chris Johns wrote:
>> On 23/11/2018 16:58, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> On 15/11/2018 14:10, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>> Copied from:
>>>>
>>>> https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause.html
>>>>
>>>> The formatting is suitable for C/C++ source comments.
>>>>
>>>> Update #3053.
>>> It would be nice if this patch could be reviewed. It would be quite bad if we
>>> have an error in this template file.
>>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> Should https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause be the reference?
> 
> I got some private mails from FreeBSD developers as a result of this question:
> 
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2018-October/053447.html
> 

OK.

> This let me to change the URL in v2 of this patch to spdx.org which is
> maintained by the Linux Foundation instead of OSI.

Sure.

>>
>> They are the same so the SPDX link can also be provided but it is about data
>> exchange.
>>
>> Does this file need a context to explain it's purpose in the RTEMS kernel source
>> tree?
> 
> Maybe something like this:
> 
> "This license file serves as a template for the license header in files."

.. Copy to the top of source the file as a comment and update the year and
copyright fields ... or something like this.

Thanks
Chris