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README.license: Update to reflect SPDX tag usage

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Update README.license since files now have SPDX tags rather than license
text. Adding a copy of BSD-2-Clause license since that no longer exists
within the project.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20190620211944.9378-8-robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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Rob Herring 2019-06-20 15:19:44 -06:00 • committed by David Gibson
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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dtc does not incorporate or rely on libfdt for its operation, nor vice
versa. It is important that these two pieces of software have
different license conditions.
As the copyright banners in each source file attest, dtc is licensed
As SPDX license tags in each source file attest, dtc is licensed
under the GNU GPL. The full text of the GPL can be found in the file
entitled 'GPL' which should be included in this package. dtc code,
therefore, may not be incorporated into works which do not have a GPL
@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ compatible license.
libfdt, however, is GPL/BSD dual-licensed. That is, it may be used
either under the terms of the GPL, or under the terms of the 2-clause
BSD license (aka the ISC license). The full terms of that license are
given in the copyright banners of each of the libfdt source files.
This is, in practice, equivalent to being BSD licensed, since the
terms of the BSD license are strictly more permissive than the GPL.
BSD license (aka the ISC license). The full terms of that license can
be found are in the file entitled 'BSD-2-Clause'. This is, in
practice, equivalent to being BSD licensed, since the terms of the BSD
license are strictly more permissive than the GPL.
I made the decision to license libfdt in this way because I want to
encourage widespread and correct usage of flattened device trees,