From a239b0b0b6dbe6a168969b8cd6e600cf85db278d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 10:45:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add symlink from gpl-2.0.txt to a COPYING file MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit While it is good that the "Licenses/" directory contains the text for all licenses that are applicable to u-boot code, it is harder to determine at a glance what the default and/or preferred license is. While humans can look at the Licenses/README file, this is not machine parseable, making it tricky for license detection tools to automatically determine/report on the overall / aggregate u-boot license. The project previously had a top level COPYING file containing a short blurb, followed by the GPL license text. This was removed back in commit eca3aeb352c964bdb28b8e191d6326370245e03f when the "Licenses/" directory was introduced. For the benefit of automated tools, it is helpful to retain a top level COPYING file in the repository. Rather than duplicate the license text, however, a symlink from the Licenses/gpl-2.0.txt file should suffice. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé Reported-by: Alex Bennée Acked-by: Tom Rini --- COPYING | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 120000 COPYING diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING new file mode 120000 index 00000000000..1ed3ba6a13c --- /dev/null +++ b/COPYING @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Licenses/gpl-2.0.txt \ No newline at end of file -- 2.47.3