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

[Flanagan, Elizabeth]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> 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.

I have an email out to the author to verify if it would be ok to use
BSD-2-Clause. If so, we can switch it to that. If not, we'll add less
as a license type.

Sound ok?

-b

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Elizabeth Flanagan
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