[OE-core] [PATCH] util-linux: Update License Information (remove GPLv3 Licnese)

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Sun Mar 17 09:16:42 UTC 2013


On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 22:03 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mar 15, 2013, at 12:54 PM, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > The upstream authors have updated the licenses of a couple subcomponents,
> > these were GPLv3, but updated to be either GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1 accordingly.
> > These changes make the util-linux package become completely non-GPLv3.
> 
> Is it possible to demote license from V3 to V2 like that  I wonder

The maintainer sought out approval from the copyright holders so yes.
The more people who've changed the files in question, the harder it
becomes.

Cheers,

Richard





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