From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 93-97-173-237.zone5.bethere.co.uk ([93.97.173.237] helo=tim.rpsys.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RnI0X-0004kE-RO for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:02 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q0HMqOAO012854 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:52:24 GMT Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tim.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12196-06 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:52:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.3.10] ([192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q0HMqHxo012848 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:52:18 GMT Message-ID: <1326840736.2529.1.camel@ted> From: Richard Purdie To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:52:16 +0000 In-Reply-To: References: <4F15EB93.9090301@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rpsys.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] bdwgc: new recipe for autogen 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: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:00:02 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 14:20 -0800, Flanagan, Elizabeth wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Saul Wold wrote: > > On 01/17/2012 12:30 PM, nitin.a.kamble@intel.com wrote: > >> > >> From: Nitin A Kamble > >> > >> This recipe is needed by guile. > >> And guile is needed for autogen. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble > >> --- > >> meta/recipes-support/bdwgc/bdwgc_20110107.bb | 38 > >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >> 1 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > >> create mode 100644 meta/recipes-support/bdwgc/bdwgc_20110107.bb > >> > >> diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/bdwgc/bdwgc_20110107.bb > >> b/meta/recipes-support/bdwgc/bdwgc_20110107.bb > >> new file mode 100644 > >> index 0000000..1aaa5b8 > >> --- /dev/null > >> +++ b/meta/recipes-support/bdwgc/bdwgc_20110107.bb > >> @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ > >> +SUMMARY = "A garbage collector for C and C++" > >> + > >> +DESCRIPTION = "The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can > >> be\ > >> + used as a garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new. It > >> allows\ > >> + you to allocate memory basically as you normally would, without > >> explicitly\ > >> + deallocating memory that is no longer useful. The collector > >> automatically\ > >> + recycles memory when it determines that it can no longer be otherwise\ > >> + accessed.\ > >> + The collector is also used by a number of programming language\ > >> + implementations that either use C as intermediate code, want to > >> facilitate\ > >> + easier interoperation with C libraries, or just prefer the simple > >> collector\ > >> + interface.\ > >> + Alternatively, the garbage collector may be used as a leak detector for > >> C\ > >> + or C++ programs, though that is not its primary goal.\ > >> + Empirically, this collector works with most unmodified C programs, > >> simply\ > >> + by replacing malloc with GC_malloc calls, replacing realloc with > >> GC_realloc\ > >> + calls, and removing free calls." > >> + > >> +HOMEPAGE = "http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/" > >> +SECTION = "devel" > >> +LICENSE = "custom" > > > > What's custom? Is this the correct LICENSE name to use here? > > Beth comments? > > custom is certainly not correct. This one isn't a particularly easy one. > > openSuSE says BSD-3-Clause. This isn't actually true from what I'm > seeing. It looks to me more like: > > LICENSE = "MIT & FSF-Unlimited & GPL-2.0" > > linux_threads.c and Makefile.am appear to be MIT. > > "Several files supporting GNU-style builds are copyrighted by the Free > Software Foundation, and carry a different license from that given > below." I would assume that that is FSF-Unlimited. > > The main portion of the license is MIT. > > It does mention that there are some GPL code in here: > > "A few of the files needed to use the GNU-style build procedure come with > slightly different licenses, though they are all similar in spirit. A few > are GPL'ed, but with an exception that should cover all uses in the > collector. (If you are concerned about such things, I recommend you look > at the notice in config.guess or ltmain.sh.)" > > ltmain.sh is GPL-2.0. Is it distributed in the package? If so, then I > would add it to LICENSE. ltmain.sh is from libtool and is a build time tool used by *many* of our recipes. I don't think that one needs to be mentioned in LICENSE, or if it does, we have much bigger problems than this recipe. Cheers, Richard