From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 00:06:03 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/2] i2c-tools: include LGPL-2.1+ license for libi2c In-Reply-To: <20180824235759.4edac1f1@windsurf> References: <1535118847-21086-1-git-send-email-brad@nextdimension.cc> <1535118847-21086-2-git-send-email-brad@nextdimension.cc> <20180824235759.4edac1f1@windsurf> Message-ID: <20180824220603.GY9365@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 2018-08-24 23:57 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:54:06 -0500, Brad Love wrote: > > Extend i2c-tools SPDX identifiers to include the library license. > > Also include COPYING.LGPL and README to license files. > > > > The ic2-tools readme states: > > > > LICENSE > > > > Check the documentation of individual tools for licensing information. > > The library is released under the LGPL version 2.1 or later, while most > > tools are released under the GPL version 2 or later, but there are a few > > exceptions. > > > > Signed-off-by: Brad Love > > I've applied to master, but after adding the hashes of the additional > license files to i2c-tools.hash. > > Yann: is it expected than missing hashes for license files is not a > hard failure, when a hash file is present ? Perhaps it was back in the > days, but maybe we should tighten up this ? Definitely, we should make it a hard error, yes. > Or at least in the case where one of the license files has a hash that > is present, which was the case here. If the .hash file is present, then all files must have a corresponding hash in there. That's the rule for downloaded files; it should also be the rule for license files. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'