From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQTPz-0000FZ-5p for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:27:28 +0100 Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 08 Dec 2010 15:25:56 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,318,1288594800"; d="scan'208";a="685290781" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.13.4]) ([10.255.13.4]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 08 Dec 2010 15:25:38 -0800 Message-ID: <4D0013F1.3000607@intel.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:25:37 -0800 From: Saul Wold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100621 Fedora/3.0.5-1.fc13 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frans Meulenbroeks References: <4CFD68A2.20408@intel.com> <20101206225236.GD29253@denix.org> <4CFD9E17.5070209@intel.com> In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 134.134.136.20 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: saul.wold@intel.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Cc: "poky@yoctoproject.org" , "openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org" Subject: Re: [poky] libcdaudio license issue X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:27:28 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/07/2010 01:23 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: > Replying to 3 replies in this one > > > 2010/12/7 Saul Wold: >> On 12/06/2010 02:52 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:50:10PM -0800, Saul Wold wrote: >>>> >>>> On 12/06/2010 11:48 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I was checking libcdaudio for LICENSE info. >>>>> recipe says GPL >>>>> COPYING file is the GPLv2 one >>>>> README file says: >>>>> >>>>> libcdaudio is distributed under the GNU Library General Public >>>>> License, included in this package under the top level source directory >>>>> in the file COPYING >>>>> >>>>> C files also mention LGPL. but say v2 or later >>>>> >>>>> What to do with this in the LICENSE field? LGPLv2+ ? >>>>> >>>> This seems reasonable, you should also include the header chunk in the >>>> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM, you can specify start and end lines for the checksum. > > Yes, I'm aware of this. Would you want to add all the header chunks > that state this, or only e.g. the most important one (assuming such a > file can be identified) > I've seen the text in different files. > I would suggest the most important one as mostly those headers would be the same. Picking something like a common header file or the file that contains main() would make sense. > Also is poky planning to take this recipe? If not, it is kind-a > pointless for me to update it, so I'd rather waste time on something > else :-) At this point I think the work you are doing is valuable but better suited to live in a layer. The core is really targeted to be as generic as possible to allow for a broad variety of devices. Richard recently suggested that a repo be created for such meta layers. We are working out the details on creating and opening up that repo. Sau! >>> >>> Saul, >>> >>> We don't have this feature in OpenEmbedded yet... But it would be nice to >>> port >>> it from Poky though! :) > > Note that adding/using LIC_FILES_CHKSUM in OE should be harmless as > it is a var, which is not used. > So if we wnat to move into that dir we might consider keeping the > field in the OE recipes (currently for libaudio it is not there) >>> >> Denys, sorry I saw this via my poky email and did not notice it was OE also, >> I will what what I cross post next time! > > The recipe is also in OE and of course suffers from the same issue. > That's why I posted to both lists. >> >> Glad to hear that you like the idea! We will have all Poky recipes >> checksummed this week! > > Cool! > > Frans >