[gPXE] license review of gPXE for inclusion in Debian

[Thomas Miletich]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Vagrant Cascadian
<vagrant+gpxe at freegeek.org> wrote:
> i've been working on packaging gPXE for Debian, but in order to get proper
> inclusion, it needs an exhaustive license and copyright review.
>
> it seems like there's a mechanism for (i forget the exact syntax):
>
>  make -C src FOO.rom.licence
>
> but this has to be done for each and every rom separately, or is there a way to
> review the whole codebase with a single command? any other suggestions on how
> to work with gPXE developers on these issues?

I don't think there is a way to build a gPXE image that contains all
features at once(think of BIOS and EFI support at the same time).

> as an alternate auditing mechanism, i've used licensecheck (from the devscripts
> package in debian) and manually deleted the ones that seem mostly ok, to
> produces the attached list of files that need further review. licensecheck
> parses the contents of the files themselves, looking for known licensing and
> copyright patterns. licensecheck will likely come up with a little different
> set of issues than the make *.licence checks.

There is a FILE_LICENCE() macro at the top of every file in src/. You
can grep all files for FILE_LICENCE() and put the output into a file.
Remove all the known-good ones and see if something is left in the
list. The FILE_LICENCE macro is also the source of information for
'make bin/foo.rom.licence'.

Thomas