[OE-core] [PATCH] udev-extraconf: change LICENSE to MIT

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Tue Jul 31 12:46:40 UTC 2012


Op 31 jul. 2012, om 13:26 heeft Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> het volgende geschreven:

> On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 21:01 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> * original recipe added by RP in fc128ab1e4fec27d44cebfa690a9bc233eda0caf was saying GPL
>> * later it was changed to GPLv2
>> * COPYING.GPL was added to reflect that
>> * meta-oe has similar recipe with MIT license and even more scripts, so lets change LICENSE here too
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf/COPYING.GPL |  339 ---------------------
>> meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf_1.0.bb      |    8 +-
>> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 343 deletions(-)
>> delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf/COPYING.GPL
> 
> Er, I think we need to be a little more careful than this. Just because
> you want something to be so, doesn't make it happen just like that...
> 
> Looking at the commit, I've just copied the license from the original
> source which was a GPLv2 recipe (udev). Where did mount.blacklist come
> from originally? Is there evidence its MIT licensed? How did meta-oe
> conclude this was MIT licensed?

It was written for oe-classic -> MIT licensed



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