Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix license notices for OE-Core

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 20:44 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Thursday 02 January 2014 14:25:36 Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 20:59 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > * Fix up LICENSE:
> > >   - Replace reference to Poky with OpenEmbedded
> > >   - Remove reference to bitbake and meta-extras that aren't part of this
> > >   
> > >     repository
> > >   
> > >   - Clarify license statements
> > > 
> > > * Add a COPYING.GPLv2 file in meta/ for the GPLv2 parts
> > > * Add a COPYING.MIT file to meta-skeleton consistent with the other
> > > 
> > >   meta-* directories
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > >  LICENSE                   |  16 +--
> > >  meta-skeleton/COPYING.MIT |  17 +++
> > >  meta/COPYING.GPLv2        | 339
> > >  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 364
> > >  insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > >  create mode 100644 meta-skeleton/COPYING.MIT
> > >  create mode 100644 meta/COPYING.GPLv2
> > 
> > FWIW this broke everything which depends on the checksum of the LICENSE
> > file. I merged a fix for that and alerted Scott to the issue in the
> > manuals.
> 
> Oops, I hadn't anticipated that - thanks for clearing up after me. I do think 
> most of those recipes ought to be pointing at COPYING.MIT and not LICENSE 
> though.

Quite possibly but I'll leave that for a later patch. Right now I just
wanted the builds working again...

Cheers,

Richard