The preferred license for TianoCore contributions is BSD+Patent. The Legalese page contains information on other accepted licenses, and how licenses should be documented in TianoCore projects.

Example Language: BSD+Patent

The preferred method to specify a license for TianoCore contributions is to use SPDX identifiers. The SPDX identifier for the BSD+Patent License is BSD-2-Clause-Patent. The following is example file header content.

Copyright (c) 2019, Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.

SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-Patent