From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ceresoli Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:54:31 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] inotify-tools: add license information In-Reply-To: <20120822194521.48a4060c@skate> References: <1345619321-4644-1-git-send-email-spdawson@gmail.com> <20120822194521.48a4060c@skate> Message-ID: <503538F7.9000102@lucaceresoli.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Le Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:08:40 +0100, > spdawson at gmail.com a ?crit : > >> From: Simon Dawson >> >> Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson >> --- >> package/inotify-tools/inotify-tools.mk | 2 ++ >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/package/inotify-tools/inotify-tools.mk b/package/inotify-tools/inotify-tools.mk >> index 52a1701..7c37929 100644 >> --- a/package/inotify-tools/inotify-tools.mk >> +++ b/package/inotify-tools/inotify-tools.mk >> @@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ >> INOTIFY_TOOLS_VERSION = 3.14 >> INOTIFY_TOOLS_SITE = http://github.com/downloads/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/ >> $(eval $(autotools-package)) >> +INOTIFY_TOOLS_LICENSE = GPLv2+ >> +INOTIFY_TOOLS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING > > I've applied this one, but modified the two licensing-related lines to > be above the $(eval $(autotools-package)). > > Also, I am not 100% sure how to decide whether this package is GPLv2 or > GPLv2+. The COPYING file contains the text of the GPLv2, but I haven't > found any other place in the source code where the license was > mentioned. So we don't know whether it is GPLv2 only, or "GPLv2 or > later". > > I've applied your patch with GPLv2+, and we'll listen to comments from > others if they have a better idea on how to take the proper decision on > this. iostat has the same licensing policy. The GPLv2 (reported in the COPYING file for inotify-tools, as well as iostat) states: If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation. So: INOTIFY_TOOLS_LICENSE = GPL Luca