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From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] multilib_header.bbclass: Add oe_multilib_header wrapper
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:25:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2EDC6A.50001@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E2DA3CB.7070902@windriver.com>

On 7/25/11 12:11 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 7/25/11 8:54 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 14:47 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> +/*  Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Wind River Systems, Inc.
>>> + *
>>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>>> + * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 as
>>> + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> 
> I believe we're flexibly with the license statement in the file.. (Just
> verifying it to make sure I am allowed to change it.)
> 
> I personally don't believe it's a big deal, but I understand the concern.  Is
> there a different wording/license statement that would make more sense?  My
> concern is that if we make the license dynamic it's a lot of pain for no real
> technical reason.
> 
> I'd like to see if we (WR) can just put a statement on it that it can be used
> for any purpose -- whatever the legalize is for that -- and if that would
> satisfy your concerns.  (BTW: Our goal of course is NOT to change the license of
> the produced binary in any way...)

Looking for feedback, would the CC0:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt

work, or would this still "contaminate" the license statement in your opinion?

--Mark

>> This is going to cause LGPL 2.1 content to appear in the output
>> packages.  For things like binutils this is probably not a big deal,
>> since they are GPL already, but for ncurses (previously MIT-licensed)
>> this is a potentially significant change.  In any case I think there
>> needs to be some way of making sure that the LICENSE is updated
>> appropriately when this file is included.
>>
>> p.
>>
>>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-26 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-25 13:47 [PATCH 0/5] Various multilib related fixes Richard Purdie
2011-07-25 13:47 ` [PATCH 1/5] multilib_header.bbclass: Add oe_multilib_header wrapper Richard Purdie
2011-07-25 13:54   ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 17:11     ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-25 20:06       ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-26 15:25       ` Mark Hatle [this message]
2011-07-25 14:35   ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 13:47 ` [PATCH 2/5] Fix recipe multilib header conflicts Richard Purdie
2011-07-25 14:08   ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 19:11     ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-25 13:47 ` [PATCH 3/5] eglibc: Update 2.13 to avoid multilib conflicts Richard Purdie
2011-07-25 13:59   ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 19:04     ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-25 20:04       ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 13:47 ` [PATCH 4/5] ncurses: Uncompress man pages Richard Purdie
2011-07-25 14:13   ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 19:14     ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-25 14:42   ` Enrico Scholz
2011-07-25 15:28     ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 13:47 ` [PATCH 5/5] package.bbclass: fixup_perms - symlink bug fix Richard Purdie
2011-07-25 14:05   ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 14:14     ` Enrico Scholz
2011-07-25 14:15       ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 19:08     ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-25 19:42       ` Phil Blundell

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