From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 09:15:46 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] stress: add license information In-Reply-To: <1381200417.18302.3.camel@phoenix> References: <1381200229.18302.0.camel@phoenix> <1381200417.18302.3.camel@phoenix> Message-ID: <20131008091546.69d58892@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Axel Lin, On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:46:57 +0800, Axel Lin wrote: > Signed-off-by: Axel Lin > --- > package/stress/stress.mk | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/package/stress/stress.mk b/package/stress/stress.mk > index 6e82b50..387166d 100644 > --- a/package/stress/stress.mk > +++ b/package/stress/stress.mk > @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ > > STRESS_VERSION = 1.0.4 > STRESS_SITE = http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~apw/stress > +STRESS_LICENSE = GPLv3+ > +STRESS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING Hum, the situation is a bit weird: * The homepage of the project states " It is written in C, and is free software licensed under the GPLv2." * The tarball contains a COPYING file which is a copy of the GPLv3. * The source code itself contains the mention: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. So in the end, it's hard to decide whether it's GPLv2+ or GPLv3+. Maybe you could contact the author of 'stress' and clarify the situation? Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com