From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
To: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: LICENSE = "GPL" -- problem?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 16:47:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB2C0EE.3070509@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120514201154.8A627202B34@gemini.denx.de>
On 12-05-14 04:11 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we noticed warnings like "No generic license file exists for: GPL in
> any provider" for our own linux kernel recipe. The cause wa the use
> of an entry
>
> LICENSE = "GPL"
>
> which whould read "GPLv2" instead of "GPL". A scan detected that the
> same string "GPL" is used in a number of other recipes:
>
> bitbake/lib/bb/shell.py:LICENSE = "GPL"
> meta/recipes-kernel/kern-tools/kern-tools-native_git.bb:LICENSE = "GPL"
I've updated this license to be more specific. I'm not sure if a bug
was opened for the other ones, but I took care of the one that I
look after.
Cheers,
Bruce
> meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-dummy.bb:LICENSE = "GPL"
> meta/recipes-bsp/x-load/x-load.inc:LICENSE = "GPL"
> meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc:LICENSE = "GPL"
> meta/recipes-devtools/unifdef/unifdef-native_2.6.18+git.bb:LICENSE = "GPL"
>
> Eventually these should be fixed, too?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-15 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-14 20:11 LICENSE = "GPL" -- problem? Wolfgang Denk
2012-05-14 20:58 ` Flanagan, Elizabeth
2012-05-14 21:12 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-05-15 20:47 ` Bruce Ashfield [this message]
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