Re: [PATCH] udev-extraconf: change LICENSE to MIT

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 02:46:40PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 
> Op 31 jul. 2012, om 13:26 heeft Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 21:01 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> >> * original recipe added by RP in fc128ab1e4fec27d44cebfa690a9bc233eda0caf was saying GPL
> >> * later it was changed to GPLv2
> >> * COPYING.GPL was added to reflect that
> >> * meta-oe has similar recipe with MIT license and even more scripts, so lets change LICENSE here too
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa@gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >> meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf/COPYING.GPL |  339 ---------------------
> >> meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf_1.0.bb      |    8 +-
> >> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 343 deletions(-)
> >> delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf/COPYING.GPL
> > 
> > Er, I think we need to be a little more careful than this. Just because
> > you want something to be so, doesn't make it happen just like that...
> > 
> > Looking at the commit, I've just copied the license from the original
> > source which was a GPLv2 recipe (udev). Where did mount.blacklist come
> > from originally? Is there evidence its MIT licensed? How did meta-oe
> > conclude this was MIT licensed?
> 
> It was written for oe-classic -> MIT licensed

ping4, are some lawyers still working on this?

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com

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