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Martin Roth cf4722d317 src/mb: Update unlicensable files with the CC-PDDC SPDX ID
These files contain no creative content, and therefore have no
copyright. This effectively means that they are in the public
domain.

This commit updates the unlicensable empty (and effectively empty)
files with the CC-PDDX identifier for license compliance scanning.

Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <martin.roth@amd.corp-partner.google.com>
Change-Id: I0b76921a32e482b6aed154dddaba368f29ac2207
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/66497
Reviewed-by: Michael Niewöhner <foss@mniewoehner.de>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
2022-08-13 19:25:12 +00:00
Martin Roth f67a1aa76a util/lint & LICENSES: Add PDDC as a "license" for coreboot
The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication and Certification is not
a license in the common sense in that it's stating that the associated
file is already in the public domain (having no copyright), and is not
actually putting it in the public domain like the CC-C0 license does.

The use for this in coreboot is for unlicensable files - either blank
files or files with no creative content.  This allows these files to
have the SPDX identifier to identify them as having no known copyright
for open source license compliance.

If CC-PDM-1.0 is ever included in the list of SPDX licenses, that would
probably fit better, but because the public domain mark isn't actually
a license, and because "public domain" isn't well defined, CC-PDM was
rejected as a SPDX identifier.

For further information:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201018194411/https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/988

Change-Id: Ibb300ecd066cde2a016195c2beca76a460c588e3
Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <martin.roth@amd.corp-partner.google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/66496
Reviewed-by: Elyes Haouas <ehaouas@noos.fr>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Niewöhner <foss@mniewoehner.de>
2022-08-10 19:07:20 +00:00