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patjak / facetimehd

Reverse engineered Linux driver for the FacetimeHD (Broadcom 1570) PCIe webcam
GNU General Public License v2.0
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License #245

Closed Dekedro closed 3 years ago

Dekedro commented 3 years ago

Currently this project has no licensing terms attached to it. While one could assume project is (legally) safe to use, it would be nice to have license clarifying that.

WhyNotHugo commented 3 years ago

Different files mention GPLv2, so I assume that applies to the project as a whole too.

It's also based on existing GPLv2 code, so I think that's really the only choice the authors have anyway.

Dekedro commented 3 years ago

Yes, looks like all source files contain headers with licensing terms. Seems I missed that.

Anyway, it would be useful to have full license text in a separate LICENSE file, so GitHub can detect and display license type.

patjak commented 3 years ago

Yes, the license for the project is GPLv2. Previously you could choose a license for projects on github so that it would show on the project page. Looks like they have removed that feature.

patjak commented 3 years ago

I've now changed the license text to SPDX license identifiers and included GPLv2 in a LICENSE file. Closing the issue.