[OE-core] [PATCH] nettle: clean up license information

[Martin Jansa]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:48:30AM +0300, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> On 18 August 2015 at 11:03, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 10:58:21AM +0530, Armin Kuster wrote:
> >> adding the license definitions on the few packages that
> >> deviate from the overall package license.
> >>
> >> based on http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/nettle.html#Copyright
> >> and spot checking files.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster808 at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle_2.7.1.bb | 9 +++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle_2.7.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle_2.7.1.bb
> >> index f53afcc..f9d331f 100644
> >> --- a/meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle_2.7.1.bb
> >> +++ b/meta/recipes-support/nettle/nettle_2.7.1.bb
> >> @@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ SUMMARY = "A low level cryptographic library"
> >>  HOMEPAGE = "http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/"
> >>  SECTION = "libs"
> >>  LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2"
> >
> > It would be nice to package GPLv2 files in separate package as well (or
> > LGPLv2.1 library in seprate package) if you have time to do that.
> 
> Forgot to answer this, sorry.
> 
> For 2.7.1 what you suggest may work -- there may be some tools that
> are GPLv2 that we could separate. But for the new version the strange
> " "LGPLv3+ | GPLv2+" license combo is _not_ a result of the library
> being LGPL and some utilities being GPL: the library itself (like a
> lot of GNU stuff nowadays) is dual licensed like that.

This means that we need to preserve nettle 2.7.1 for people who cannot
use LGPLv3 (and GPLv2 for libraries).

> It seems weird but actually makes sense for GNU: It forces all users
> to comply with LGPLv3, except the GPLv2 programs that can't easily be
> relicensed to GPLv3. Those GPLv2 programs would be incompatible with
> the newer LGPLv3 libraries but this dual-licensing lets them off the
> hook.
> 
> Jussi
> 
> 
> 
> >> +LICENSE_${PN}-cast = "CC0"
> >> +LICENSE_${PN}-gosthash = "MIT"
> >> +
> >> +# both public and GPL license listed
> >> +LICENSE_${PN}-md2 = "CC0 & LGPLv2.1+"
> >> +LICENSE_${PN}-md4 = "CC0 & LGPLv2.1+"
> >> +
> >> +
> >>  LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1 \
> >>                      file://serpent-decrypt.c;beginline=53;endline=67;md5=bcfd4745d53ca57f82907089898e390d \
> >>                      file://serpent-set-key.c;beginline=56;endline=70;md5=bcfd4745d53ca57f82907089898e390d"
> >> --
> >> 2.3.5
> >>
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