Re: LICENSE, LICENSE and LICENSE

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 09:15:54PM +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Being bored while waiting for a build to finish, I decided to to a
> grep for LICENSE on recipes/*/*
> 
> As already reported on an earlier email about 375 recipes have no
> LICENSE (according to recipe_sanity).
> 
> After a little bit of editing and sorting I came to the list at the
> end of this email.
> First digit is the number a license occurs, 2nd field is the license itself.
> 
> Some concerns:
> - GPL seems to be the most widely string used, but this does not say
> too much. Is this v1, v2, v3, or maybe v1+, v2+, v3+
> - Using ${PN} as license string might seem as a nifty way to save
> typing a few letters, but it does not help with scripts that process
> recipes
> - we seem not too consistent wrt spelling wand writing things (for
> example: GPLv2, GPLV2, GPL-2, GPL2)
> - some of these use licenses that I have never heard of and for some I
> have some doubts (e.g "closed" "various" "as-is" "python-style" ...)
> 
> BTW: I've no plans to clean this up. I've been there in another world,
> and it is boring like hell (and in that world I was at least paid for
> it)
> Just want to pass the results.

Frans,

I've done a similar exercise some time ago and collected this list for my 
personal use, when I was fixing licenses for the recipes/packages I'm 
interested in. I did fix a number of them already, as well as my fellow 
co-workers[1]. I also see you recently took care of many perl-related recipes 
yourself.

So far it was in the "scratch the itch" mode - when we see some packages 
reporting incorrect or unspecific licenses, we fix them. Hopefully, this way 
we can correct the majority of recipes and leave the remainder as a janitorial 
work, as Chris suggested...

[1] http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/log/?qt=grep&q=LICENSE&ofs=25

>    1931 "GPL"
>     604 "GPLv2"
>     467 "LGPL"
>     246 "MIT"
>     181 "BSD"
>     138 "Artistic|GPLv1"
>     112 "GPLv3"
>      37 "MIT BSD"
>      35 "LGPLv2"
>      32 "LGPLv2.1"
>      28 "BSD-X"
>      27 "unknown"
>      26 "GPL LGPL"
>      25 "PD"
>      23 "TI"
>      20 "MPL"
>      18 "LGPLv2.1 GPLv3"
>      18 "AL2.0"
>      17 "MIT-X"
>      16 "GPL QPL"
>      14 "PSF"
>      13 "${PN}"
>      11 "LGPL GPL"
>      10 "GPLv2+"
>       8 "GPL-2"
>       6 "nokia"
>       6 "liboil"
>       6 "Various"
>       6 "LGPLv2.1+"
>       5 "zlib"
>       5 "Unknown"
>       5 "OSL"
>       5 "MIT/X11"
>       5 "MIT/BSD"
>       5 "GPLv2/LGPLv2.1"
>       5 "GPLV2"
>       5 "GPL/LGPL"
>       5 "GPL LGPL FDL"
>       5 "Classpath"
>       5 "Boost Software License"
>       5 "Artistic"
>       4 ${CSL_LIC_RLE}
>       4 "tcl"
>       4 "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/"
>       4 "Intel Public Licence"
>       4 "EPL"
>       4 "Bitstream Vera"
>       4 "BSD GPLv2"
>       4 "Apache"
>       4 "Apache License, Version 2.0"
>       3 "wxWindows"
>       3 "snes9x"
>       3 "libffi"
>       3 "Public Domain"
>       3 "MPL1.1 GPL LGPL"
>       3 "LGPL MPL"
>       3 "GPLv3,LGPLv2.1,LGPLv3"
>       3 "GPLv3+"
>       3 "GPL+LGPL"
>       3 "GPL LGPL AFL"
>       3 "GPL BSD"
>       3 "GPL AFL"
>       3 "GPL + library exception"
>       3 "GD"
>       3 "BSD GPL"
>       3 "As is"
>       2 "pycrypto"
>       2 "public domain"
>       2 "povray"
>       2 "netperf"
>       2 "libgsm"
>       2 "jpeg"
>       2 "howl"
>       2 "closed"
>       2 "bzip2"
>       2 "ZPL"
>       2 "TI-BSD/GPLv2"
>       2 "TI BSD"
>       2 "QPL"
>       2 "Public domain"
>       2 "Perl"
>       2 "PHP"
>       2 "OSGPL"
>       2 "MPL LGPL"
>       2 "MPL GPL LGPL MIT"
>       2 "LGPL-2 FDL-1.1"
>       2 "LGPL 2.1/GPL 2/Apache 2.0"
>       2 "LGPL / MPL"
>       2 "Info-ZIP"
>       2 "ISC"
>       2 "IBM"
>       2 "GPLv3 LGPLv3"
>       2 "GPLv3 LGPLv2"
>       2 "GPL with Classpath Exception"
>       2 "GPL libsamplerate"
>       2 "Embedded Widgets Demo License Agreement"
>       2 "CPL"
>       2 "CC-BY-SA3"
>       2 "CC-BY"
>       2 "BSD/OPENSSH"
>       2 "BSD-like"
>       2 "BSD-ADV"
>       2 "Apache-2.0"
>       2 "Apache License V2.0"
>       2 "Apache BSD"
>       2 "Adobe"
>       2 "AURA"
>       2 "AGG License"
>       1 OFL"
>       1 GPLv2
>       1 "zsh"
>       1 "zaurus-updater"
>       1 "zaurus-installer"
>       1 "xrdb"
>       1 "xmame"
>       1 "xbmc"
>       1 "vim"
>       1 "tcp-wrappers"
>       1 "sudo"
>       1 "snmp++"
>       1 "sharp-binary-only"
>       1 "shareware"
>       1 "rtaudio"
>       1 "proprietary-binary"
>       1 "orc"
>       1 "openssl"
>       1 "ntp"
>       1 "nsd"
>       1 "ngrep"
>       1 "makedev"
>       1 "libpng"
>       1 "libmng"
>       1 "libdes"
>       1 "julius"
>       1 "http://www.gnu.org/software/cgicc/doc/cgicc_license.html"
>       1 "http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-copying.html"
>       1 "gpl"
>       1 "gpe-theme-foxbox"
>       1 "freetype GPLv2"
>       1 "freely distributable"
>       1 "flite"
>       1 "cron"
>       1 "broadcom"
>       1 "as-is"
>       1 "XFree86"
>       1 "X11"
>       1 "X-MIT"
>       1 "X-BSD"
>       1 "VP8"
>       1 "University of Washingtons Free-Fork License"
>       1 "University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License"
>       1 "Unicode"
>       1 "TI TSPA"
>       1 "Sun Binary Code License Agreement"
>       1 "Stanford"
>       1 "Squeak License"
>       1 "ST"
>       1 "SIL Open Font License"
>       1 "RCS"
>       1 "Python-style"
>       1 "Pine"
>       1 "Perl Clarified Artistic License"
>       1 "PYRAF"
>       1 "PYCODES"
>       1 "PSF ZPL"
>       1 "PD/GPLv2"
>       1 "OpenSSL"
>       1 "OpenLDAP"
>       1 "Open Market"
>       1 "OSS"
>       1 "OPL"
>       1 "None"
>       1 "Neotonic ClearSilver License"
>       1 "NVIDIA"
>       1 "Modified BSD"
>       1 "Modified BSD License, Mesa 3-D License, Khronos License"
>       1 "MetaKit"
>       1 "MPL GPL LGPL"
>       1 "MIT-style"
>       1 "MIT GPLv2"
>       1 "MIT + GPL"
>       1 "Liberation"
>       1 "LiPS"
>       1 "LGPLv2.1/GFDL"
>       1 "LGPLv2+"
>       1 "LGPLv2 AFL"
>       1 "LGPL2.1"
>       1 "LGPL2+"
>       1 "LGPL/MPL"
>       1 "LGPL-3"
>       1 "LGPL GPLv2+linking exception"
>       1 "Kermit"
>       1 "Intel"
>       1 "Intel Software License Agreement"
>       1 "IPL"
>       1 "ICU"
>       1 "HypersonicSQL"
>       1 "GPLv3/GPLv2/LGPLv2.1"
>       1 "GPLv3 or later"
>       1 "GPLv2/LGPLv2"
>       1 "GPLv2,BSD"
>       1 "GPLv2 LGPLv2.1"
>       1 "GPLv2 CUPS"
>       1 "GPLv2 BSD"
>       1 "GPL2"
>       1 "GPL/ARToolkit"
>       1 "GPL, MIT, BSD"
>       1 "GPL, MIT"
>       1 "GPL QPL PD"
>       1 "GPL PSF"
>       1 "GPL MPL"
>       1 "GPL MIT"
>       1 "GPL MIT Artistic"
>       1 "GPL LGPL X11"
>       1 "GPL LGPL W3C Classpath BSD"
>       1 "GPL BSD BSD SMAIL"
>       1 "GPL Artistic"
>       1 "GPL + X11"
>       1 "FREEWARE"
>       1 "FNORB"
>       1 "EGENIX"
>       1 "DSSSL"
>       1 "Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US"
>       1 "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0"
>       1 "Copyright file"
>       1 "ClarifiedArtistic"
>       1 "CPL MPL LGPL"
>       1 "CLOSED"
>       1 "CCSA"
>       1 "CCPD"
>       1 "CC-BY-SA"
>       1 "CC"
>       1 "CC Sampling Plus 1.0"
>       1 "Berkeley-style license"
>       1 "BSD-4"
>       1 "BSD, GPLv2"
>       1 "BSD CPL LGPL"
>       1 "BSD 3-clause"
>       1 "Artistic License 2.0"
>       1 "Artistic GPLv1"
>       1 "AdobeFlash"
>       1 "AS IS"
>       1 "APL + others"
>       1 "AL2.0 W3C Public Domain"
>       1 "AL2.0 LGPL2.1"
>       1 "AGPL3"
>       1 ""
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