Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] recipes-core/busybox: fixup licensing information

["Khem Raj" <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

On 10/27/20 9:48 AM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Commit 7d32417b4d (busybox: Correct the name of the bzip2 license)
> changes the licesne from 'bzip2' to 'bzip2-1.0.6' on the rationale
> that the 'bzip2 license was renamed from "bzip2" to "bzip2-1.0.6"
> [...] to match the official SPDX identifier.'
> 
> Though the above is true for the bzip2 and pbzip2 packages, the bzip2
> code bundled in busybox is a copy from the bzip2 1.0.4 version, not the
> 1.0.6 version.
> 
> As such, using bzip2-1.0.6 is wrong.
> 
> Unfortunately, there is no official SPDX license identifier for this
> bzip2 1.0.4 version, so we just mimick the existing ones (bzip2-1.0.5
> and bzip2-1.0.6) by using bzip2-1.0.4.
> 
> Also, there is a license file attached to that, so we add it to the
> list.
> 

we also need a text file for this license in meta/files/common-licenses 
perhaps a symlink to bzip2-1.0.6 might be ok.

> Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> Cc: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
> Cc: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Alexandre BELLONI <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
> 
> ---
> Respin, as I was not yet subscribed to the list...
> Sorry for any duplicates...
> ---
>   meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc | 7 ++++---
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
> index 45aaa2b41c..e0522be729 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
> @@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.busybox.net/"
>   
>   DEPENDS += "kern-tools-native virtual/crypt"
>   
> -# bzip2 applet in busybox is based on lightly-modified bzip2 source
> +# bzip2 applet in busybox is based on lightly-modified bzip2-1.0.4 source
>   # the GPL is version 2 only
> -LICENSE = "GPLv2 & bzip2-1.0.6"
> -LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=de10de48642ab74318e893a61105afbb"
> +LICENSE = "GPLv2 & bzip2-1.0.4"
> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=de10de48642ab74318e893a61105afbb \
> +                    file://archival/libarchive/bz/LICENSE;md5=28e3301eae987e8cfe19988e98383dae"
>   
>   SECTION = "base"
>   
> 
> 
> 
> 
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