[PATCH 0/1] Change bzip2 to a less generic license

[PATCH 0/1] Change bzip2 to a less generic license

[Elizabeth Flanagan]

The license for bzip2 is not quite BSD. I have an email out to the
maintainer to see if we can utilize a common BSD license (or something
else) however, for now, we should revert bzip2 back to a special
license.

As busybox also utilizes a lightly modified bzip2, this also
effects busybox.

The following changes since commit 8609051d8d4f9fa565eb48418a87fa0048613374:

  bitbake.conf: Add CCACHE_DISABLE to BS_HASHBASE_WHITELIST (2012-10-02 18:12:48 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:
  git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib eflanagan/bzip
  http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=eflanagan/bzip

Elizabeth Flanagan (1):
  bzip2 and busybox: Incorrect LICENSE

 meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc      |    3 +--
 meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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1.7.5.4

[PATCH 1/1] bzip2 and busybox: Incorrect LICENSE

[Elizabeth Flanagan]

The license for bzip2 is not quite BSD. I have an email out to the
maintainer to see if we can utilize a common BSD license (or something
else) however, for now, we should revert bzip2 back to a special
license.

As busybox also utilizes a lightly modified bzip2, this also
effects busybox.

Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Flanagan <elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com>
---
 meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc      |    3 +--
 meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
index 33e01a4..972e7d0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.busybox.net/"
 
 # bzip2 applet in busybox is based on lightly-modified bzip2 source
 # the GPL is version 2 only
-# bzip2 is not a bzip2 license (no such thing)
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & BSD-4-Clause"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2 & bzip2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=de10de48642ab74318e893a61105afbb"
 
 SECTION = "base"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb
index 5f92deb..d03b57d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved
 LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.bzip.org/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "BSD-4-Clause"
+LICENSE = "bzip2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;beginline=8;endline=37;md5=40d9d1eb05736d1bfc86cfdd9106e6b2"
 PR = "r5"
 
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1.7.5.4

Re: [PATCH 1/1] bzip2 and busybox: Incorrect LICENSE

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello,

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Elizabeth Flanagan
<elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com> wrote:
> The license for bzip2 is not quite BSD. I have an email out to the
> maintainer to see if we can utilize a common BSD license (or something
> else) however, for now, we should revert bzip2 back to a special
> license.
>
> As busybox also utilizes a lightly modified bzip2, this also
> effects busybox.
>
> Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Flanagan <elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com>

Please send it for denzil-next as well.

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Re: [PATCH 1/1] bzip2 and busybox: Incorrect LICENSE

[Martin Jansa]

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On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 09:21:53AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Elizabeth Flanagan
> <elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com> wrote:
> > The license for bzip2 is not quite BSD. I have an email out to the
> > maintainer to see if we can utilize a common BSD license (or something
> > else) however, for now, we should revert bzip2 back to a special
> > license.
> >
> > As busybox also utilizes a lightly modified bzip2, this also
> > effects busybox.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Flanagan <elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com>
> 
> Please send it for denzil-next as well.

Maybe with PR bumps as license is part of packaged metadata.

> 
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