[OE-core] [PATCH] harfbuzz: update the license information

Maxin B. John maxin.john at enea.com
Tue Mar 19 08:00:15 UTC 2013


 On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:25:05AM -0700, Flanagan, Elizabeth wrote:
 > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:24 AM,  <maxin.john at enea.com> wrote:
 > > From: "Maxin B. John" <maxin.john at enea.com>
 > >
 > > harfbuzz is using the 'Modern Variants' of MIT License:
 > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT?rd=Licensing/MIT#Modern_Variants
 > >
 > > So, we can update the LICENSE as 'MIT'.
 > Yes, it's a variant of MIT but...
 >·
 > cat hb-icu-le/COPYING
 >·
 > "The contents of this directory are licensed under the ICU license.
 > See file license.html."
 >·
 > So, this should be:
 >·
 > LICENSE = "MIT & ICU"
 
 You are right. I will make the modification as per your suggestion.   

 > even though ICU is in itself an MIT variant, it should still be called
 > out as we have the ICU generic listed in files/common-licenses.
 >·
 > >  LIC_FILES_CHKSUM ="file://COPYING;md5=e021dd6dda6ff1e6b1044002fc662b9b \
 > >                     file://src/hb-ucdn/COPYING;md5=994ba0f1295f15b4bda4999a5bbeddef \
 > >                     file://src/hb-icu-le/COPYING;md5=0ac60acf068e2cc9facdf86169a9c13e \
 >·
 > This is correct. There are a lot of headers with licenses but at a
 > glance they all appear to read as MIT.
 >·
 > > --

 Thank you very much for the comments.

 Warm Regards,
 Maxin 




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