From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:16:36 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/libgit2: Bump to version 1.0.0 In-Reply-To: <20200415223258.2d5d406c@windsurf.home> References: <20200414091439.25465-1-nicolas.cavallari@green-communications.fr> <20200415223258.2d5d406c@windsurf.home> Message-ID: <20200415211636.GJ5853@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas, All, On 2020-04-15 22:32 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:14:39 +0200 > Nicolas Cavallari wrote: [--SNIP--] > > +LIBGIT2_LICENSE = GPL-2.0 with linking exception, BSD 4-clause variant (wildmatch), MIT (sha1) > But here is the part that made me not apply the patch: this BSD > 4-clause variant thing. The license text is at > https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/master/COPYING#L995 and it > doesn't seem to be a license known at https://spdx.org/licenses/. I'm > not sure how to properly encode it. > > Yann, Arnout, any suggestion? We should only encode known, exact matches. Otherwise, we should only list it like we do unknown license, like: libgit2 license (wildmatch) What does not help in fact, is that the code does not originate libgit2, but from git, which itself got it from rsync before it turned GPLv3, which got it from somewhere. However, the code is credited to a certain Rich Salz, in 1986, 34 years ago now. There is even a Wikipedia page [0] about something really closely related, wildmat, which is also described as bsing a pattern matching library writen in 1986 by said Rich Salz. There is a wildmat on github [1], also posted by Rich Salz, where they dedicate it to the public domain. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildmat [1] https://github.com/richsalz/wildmat Still, that does not say much about the actual copy in libgit2... So, I'd just say something like wildmatch license (wildmatch) Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 561 099 427 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'