Re: [PATCH 1/3] nettle: add nettle to poky

Valentin Popa
2014-05-02T11:19:08Z

On 05/01/2014 02:34 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Valentin,
>
> On Wednesday 30 April 2014 18:39:31 Valentin Popa wrote:
>> Newer versions of gnutls depends on nettle.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Valentin Popa <valentin.popa@intel.com>
>> ---
>> meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle_2.7.1.bb | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle_2.7.1.bb
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle_2.7.1.bb
>> b/meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle_2.7.1.bb new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..eb7c9de
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle_2.7.1.bb
>> @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
>> +DESCRIPTION = "A low level cryptographic library"
> Since this value is short, could you please set it as SUMMARY instead?
>
>> +HOMEPAGE = "http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/"
>> +SECTION = "libs"
>> +LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
> Is this license value correct? From the documentation:
>
> "Nettle is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), see
> the file COPYING.LIB for details"

I'll add both GPLv2 AND LGPLv2.1 (GPL contamination) .

>
> It looks like it might be even more complicated than that, since there is also
> a GPLv2 copying file in the 2.7.1 source.
>
>> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
>> "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
> Given the above we'd probably want to checksum more than just this file.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>