RE: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] ncurses: use COPYING file

[Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org <openembedded-
> core@lists.openembedded.org> On Behalf Of Konrad Weihmann
> Sent: den 13 april 2022 19:09
> To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
> Cc: Konrad Weihmann <kweihmann@outlook.com>
> Subject: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] ncurses: use COPYING file
> 
> which has the same info as the in-file header used in before

That's not quite true. Please drop the last three lines of the COPYING 
file that contains editor configuration and a CVS $Id$.

Some of us use the output from LIC_FILES_CHKSUM to produce a combined 
license text for our products and any non-license related information 
that is included then becomes more or less problematic.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Weihmann <kweihmann@outlook.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc b/meta/recipes-
> core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
> index a0ecd8a80b..8d374a1522 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "The New Curses library"
>  DESCRIPTION = "SVr4 and XSI-Curses compatible curses library and terminfo
> tools including tic, infocmp, captoinfo. Supports color, multiple
> highlights, forms-drawing characters, and automatic recognition of keypad
> and function-key sequences. Extensions include resizable windows and mouse
> support on both xterm and Linux console using the gpm library."
>  HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html"
>  LICENSE = "MIT"
> -LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
> "file://ncurses/base/version.c;beginline=1;endline=27;md5=5526f2f3a29edc95
> 538b368a4771edda"
> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f852913c5d988a5f5a2f1df7ba7ee893"
>  SECTION = "libs"
>  DEPENDS = "ncurses-native"
>  DEPENDS:class-native = ""
> --
> 2.25.1

//Peter