[OE-core] [PATCH] xz: Correctly specify GPL-3.0 with autoconf exception

[Christopher Larson]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Flanagan, Elizabeth
> <elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com> wrote:
> > On 30 August 2015 at 17:31, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> There is m4/ax_pthread.m4 macro which uses GPL-3.0 with autoconf
> >> exception, there is no other occurance of GPL-3.0 use, lets mark the
> >> licence correctly.
> >
> > Unless the macro is actually shipped with any of the packages, I don't
> > think we actually need to do this. Generally, LICENSE should be the
> > intersection of all LICENSE_${PN}*.
>
> its not shipped on target,
>
> >
> > I think the correct fix here is actually:
> >
> > LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & PD"
>
> why did you drop LGPLv2.1+


I think we need a way to indicate the license of the source in addition to
the license of what we ship, to cover the case where the license affects
the ability to redistribute sources. I'd thought that the base LICENSE was
essentially that. If that's not the case, then we should give some careful
thought to how to cover both.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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