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From: Markus Lehtonen <markus.lehtonen@linux.intel.com>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>,
	"Maxin B. John" <maxin.john@intel.com>
Cc: OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] hdparm: update LICENSE info
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 16:03:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1470661408.2138.69.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LYCYsUFZ3_W-vRCh=TtmZe33zm-RFyukxbr84CQfi2+tQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 12:23 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 8 August 2016 at 12:13, Maxin B. John <maxin.john@intel.com>
> wrote:
> > -LICENSE = "BSD"
> > +LICENSE = "BSD & GPLv2"
> >  LICENSE_wiper = "GPLv2"
> > 
> I sent a patch for this one last week but forgot to update the bug,
> sorry.
> 
> This isn't quite right as the hdparm utility itself is BSD licensed,
> so you also need LICENSE_${PN} = BSD.
> 
> That said Markus was saying last week that this behaviour isn't great
> (and neither was the original behaviour), so there may be more
> patches to improve how LICENSE works.

I opened a discussion on the architecture list:
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-architecture/2016-
August/000218.html

I'll hopefully have some patches after a satisfying solution is found.

Thanks,
  Markus


  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-08 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-08 11:13 [PATCH 1/3] gst-player: update the callback for delete-event Maxin B. John
2016-08-08 11:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] hdparm: update LICENSE info Maxin B. John
2016-08-08 11:23   ` Burton, Ross
2016-08-08 13:03     ` Markus Lehtonen [this message]
2016-08-08 11:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] nettle: update LICENSE info for version 2.7.1 Maxin B. John

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