Update the content of LICENSE.md

Updating the license file and the check_copyright script

Signed-off-by: Manu Shantharam
AMD-Internal: N/A

Change-Id: Ie9ab61c56ba8a636e1cb256bf651e5b67d1b71f1

LICENSE.md

@@ -1,19 +1,9 @@
-Copyright (c) 2020-2024 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
+This summary and the license information provided below is for reference purposes and is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all copyright notices or license terms and conditions applicable to AOCL-Sparse Library.  Please refer to the source code files in AOCL-Sparse Library for all copyrights and licenses.
 
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
-in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
-to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
-copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
-furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
-all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
-IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
-AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
-LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
-THE SOFTWARE.
+AMD copyrighted code (MIT)
+Copyright Statements
+Copyright (c) 2019 - present Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
+License Text http://spdx.org/licenses/MIT
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

tools/check_copyright.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# Copyright (c) 2023 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2023-2024 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
 #
 # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 # of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@
 # Check if all files have adjusted current copyright year
 # and return number of non-matching files.
 # It is assumed that the copyright label should on the top of the files
-# in the form: 'Copyright (c) 2020-2023' or 'Copyright (c) 2023'
+# in the form: 'Copyright (c) 2020-2024' or 'Copyright (c) 2024'
 
 # Whitelist of files which are considered always OK
-whitelist=(README.md tests/examples/README.md docs/Doxyfile docs/AOCL-Sparse_API_Guide.pdf)
+whitelist=(README.md tests/examples/README.md docs/Doxyfile docs/AOCL-Sparse_API_Guide.pdf LICENSE.md)
 
 print_help() {
   echo $0 [-p] [file1 [file2 ...]]
@@ -104,4 +104,3 @@ for f in "$@"; do
 done
 
 exit $nfailed
-