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

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

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.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre