Re: [PATCH] gettext: License modify LICENSE to GPLv3 from GPL-3

[Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>]

On 01/09/2012 08:23 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 1/8/12 11:29 PM, Saul Wold wrote:
>> On 01/08/2012 04:39 AM, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
>>> From: Andrei Gherzan<andrei.gherzan@windriver.com>
>>>
>>> [YOCTO #1884]
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrei Gherzan<andrei@gherzan.ro>
>>> ---
>>> meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.18.1.1.bb | 2 +-
>>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.18.1.1.bb
>>> b/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.18.1.1.bb
>>> index 615582e..1e8c952 100644
>>> --- a/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.18.1.1.bb
>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.18.1.1.bb
>>> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Utilities and libraries for producing
>>> multi-lingual messages."
>>> DESCRIPTION = "Gettext offers to programmers, translators, and even
>>> users, a well integrated set of tools and documentation.
>>> Specifically, the GNU `gettext' utilities are a set of tools that
>>> provides a framework to help other GNU packages produce multi-lingual
>>> messages. These tools include a set of conventions about how programs
>>> should be written to support message catalogs, a directory and file
>>> naming organization for the message catalogs themselves, a runtime
>>> library supporting the retrieval of translated messages, and a few
>>> stand-alone programs to massage in various ways the sets of
>>> translatable strings, or already translated strings."
>>> HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html"
>>> SECTION = "libs"
>>> -LICENSE = "GPL-3+ & LGPL-2.1+"
>>> +LICENSE = "GPLv3+ & LGPL-2.1+"
>>> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
>>>
>> I think the correct fix is to change the INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE code to
>> detect both GPLv3 and GPL-3, which is the SPDX standard name.
>
> Both GPL-3+ and GPLv3+ are supposed to be equivalent. (There is still on
> going debate which one is "preferred" for oe-core.. the GPL-3+ is the
> SPDX name at least.)
>
> There is a license compatibility table, but for some reason I'm failing
> to current find it in the distribution. It may simply be that the
> INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE is not using the compatibility table.
>
Mark,

Looks like he addressed this in an updated patch, I am looking at his 
updated change and also looking at what Tom has proposed for LICENSE_FLAGS.

Sau!

> --Mark
>
>> Sau!
>>
>>> PR = "r6"
>>
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