[OE-core] [PATCH 7/8] OECore license fixes: meta/*

[Phil Blundell]

On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 11:34 -0800, Beth Flanagan wrote:
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_444.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_444.bb
> index c78dbaa..f198692 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_444.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_444.bb
> @@ -7,11 +7,14 @@ SECTION = "console/utils"
>  
>  # (GPLv2+ (<< 418), GPLv3+ (>= 418)) | less
>  # less is a 2-clause BSD-like permissive license
> -LICENSE = "GPLv3+ | less"
> +# Reading LICENSE and COPYING indicate that GPL-3+ is suffient.
> +# openSuse .spec and Debian seem to agree here. setting to GPL-3+
> +
> +LICENSE = "GPLv3+"

This change is rather misleading.  The point of the "Less
License" (effectively 2-clause BSD) option given by the README is that
it provides a non-GPLv3 route for distributing the binaries -- i.e.
makes the package usable by people who can't tolerate GPLv3 for whatever
reason.  If the recipe is marked as simply GPLv3+ then it will appear
unusable to those folks.

If we have to pick just a single license for less then it seems that the
BSD one would be a better choice than GPLv3+.

p.