[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] socat: add the latest stable version 1.7.2.0

[Cui, Dexuan]

Koen Kooi wrote on 2011-12-19:
> 
> Op 19 dec. 2011, om 06:22 heeft Dexuan Cui het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> +DEPENDS = "openssl"
>> +
>> +LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
Hi Koen,
Thanks very much for the comment! 

> Linking GPL and openssl is not allowed due to the advertising clause 
> in BSD. The socat people realized that and say:
"the advertising clause in BSD"? 
I suppose you meant "the advertising clause in openssl license"?

> license
> -------
> 
> socat is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL; except for 
> install-sh, which is copyright MIT, with its own license;
> 
> In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holder gives 
> permission to link the code of this program with any version of the 
> OpenSSL library which is distributed under a license identical to that 
> listed in the included COPYING.OpenSSL file, and distribute linked 
> combinations including the two. You must obey the GNU General Public 
> License in all respects for all of the code used other than OpenSSL.
> If you modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version 
> of the file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do
> so, delete this exception statement from your version.
My understanding is: the author of socat allows us to link socat to the lib
openssl?

Koen, 
I'm really not good at the license stuff at all. Could you please explain
the situation in more details?
What need we do if we want to add the socat recipe into poky? It has
already been in OE for a long period of time.
 
Thanks,
-- Dexuan