From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.pbcl.net ([88.198.119.4] helo=hetzner.pbcl.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RarS7-0004Rp-0K for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:13:07 +0100 Received: from elite.brightsigndigital.co.uk ([81.142.160.137] helo=[172.30.1.145]) by hetzner.pbcl.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RarLQ-0002us-C2 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:06:12 +0100 From: Phil Blundell To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:06:10 +0000 In-Reply-To: <38bec96fcbe89f8dc264c8889f69e4f5afff35ad.1323286080.git.elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com> References: <025adb591e6811bcd1bc5480d6c297015d373a02.1323286080.git.elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com> <38bec96fcbe89f8dc264c8889f69e4f5afff35ad.1323286080.git.elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2- Message-ID: <1323878772.24417.183.camel@phil-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] OECore license fixes: meta/* X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:13:07 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 11:34 -0800, Beth Flanagan wrote: > diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_444.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_444.bb > index c78dbaa..f198692 100644 > --- a/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_444.bb > +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_444.bb > @@ -7,11 +7,14 @@ SECTION = "console/utils" > > # (GPLv2+ (<< 418), GPLv3+ (>= 418)) | less > # less is a 2-clause BSD-like permissive license > -LICENSE = "GPLv3+ | less" > +# Reading LICENSE and COPYING indicate that GPL-3+ is suffient. > +# openSuse .spec and Debian seem to agree here. setting to GPL-3+ > + > +LICENSE = "GPLv3+" This change is rather misleading. The point of the "Less License" (effectively 2-clause BSD) option given by the README is that it provides a non-GPLv3 route for distributing the binaries -- i.e. makes the package usable by people who can't tolerate GPLv3 for whatever reason. If the recipe is marked as simply GPLv3+ then it will appear unusable to those folks. If we have to pick just a single license for less then it seems that the BSD one would be a better choice than GPLv3+. p.