[Buildroot] license info for buildroot

[Buildroot] license info for buildroot

[Live Coder]

uClibc contains a link to GPLv3 whereas the downloaded tarball contains GPLv2 license http://git.uclibc.org/uClibc/tree/COPYING.LIB

 

Similarly, the buildroot webpage contains a ref to GPLv3 but the download itself does not contain any license info. Can someone confirm the actual license is v2 or v3?

 

Thanks.

 

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[Buildroot] license info for buildroot

[Hans-Christian Egtvedt]

Live Coder wrote:
> uClibc contains a link to GPLv3 whereas the downloaded tarball contains GPLv2 license http://git.uclibc.org/uClibc/tree/COPYING.LIB
> 
> Similarly, the buildroot webpage contains a ref to GPLv3 but the download itself does not contain any license info. Can someone confirm the actual license is v2 or v3?
> 

Did Buildroot change to GPLv3? IMHO GPLv2 ought to be enough for the 
project.

-- 
Best regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt

[Buildroot] license info for buildroot

[Thiago A. Corrêa]

Hi,

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Hans-Christian Egtvedt
<hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> wrote:
> Live Coder wrote:
>>
>> uClibc contains a link to GPLv3 whereas the downloaded tarball contains
>> GPLv2 license http://git.uclibc.org/uClibc/tree/COPYING.LIB
>>
>> Similarly, the buildroot webpage contains a ref to GPLv3 but the download
>> itself does not contain any license info. Can someone confirm the actual
>> license is v2 or v3?
>>
>
> Did Buildroot change to GPLv3? IMHO GPLv2 ought to be enough for the
> project.
>

Not that I've known of... The website (http://www.buildroot.net/) says
LGPL and the parent git link actually points to LGPL v2.1
Acording to uclibc.org, the library is also under LGPL. But please
notice uClibc != buildroot

We share some infrastructure and perhaps some developers, but they are
different projects.

Kind Regards,
   Thiago A. Correa

[Buildroot] license info for buildroot

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Live" == Live Coder <livecoder@live.com> writes:

 Live> uClibc contains a link to GPLv3 whereas the downloaded tarball contains GPLv2
 Live> license http://git.uclibc.org/uClibc/tree/COPYING.LIB

It's afaik v2, but check with the uclibc developers on the uclibc
list.
 
 Live> Similarly, the buildroot webpage contains a ref to GPLv3 but the
 Live> download itself does not contain any license info. Can someone confirm the
 Live> actual license is v2 or v3?

It is both (gplv2 or later) - See Makefile. (notice though that we do
include Kconfig from the Linux kernel which is afaik GPLv2 only).

I'll fix the link on the website.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

[Buildroot] license info for buildroot

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Hans-Christian" == Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> writes:

Hi,

 Hans-Christian> Did Buildroot change to GPLv3? IMHO GPLv2 ought to be
 Hans-Christian> enough for the project.

No it didn't change. The Makefile has always (E.G. since r9365) listed
GPLv2 or later (before that it listed LGPL).

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

[Buildroot] license info for buildroot

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thiago" == Thiago A Corr?a <thiago.correa@gmail.com> writes:

 Thiago> Not that I've known of... The website (http://www.buildroot.net/) says
 Thiago> LGPL and the parent git link actually points to LGPL v2.1
 Thiago> Acording to uclibc.org, the library is also under LGPL. But please
 Thiago> notice uClibc != buildroot

It seems like Erik made a mistake when he added the website back in
2005, and that part has never been updated. BR is licensed under GPLv2
(or later) as described in Makefile.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard