[OE-core] [PATCH 2/3] hdparm: update LICENSE info

Markus Lehtonen markus.lehtonen at linux.intel.com
Mon Aug 8 13:03:28 UTC 2016


On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 12:23 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 8 August 2016 at 12:13, Maxin B. John <maxin.john at intel.com>
> wrote:
> > -LICENSE = "BSD"
> > +LICENSE = "BSD & GPLv2"
> >  LICENSE_wiper = "GPLv2"
> > 
> I sent a patch for this one last week but forgot to update the bug,
> sorry.
> 
> This isn't quite right as the hdparm utility itself is BSD licensed,
> so you also need LICENSE_${PN} = BSD.
> 
> That said Markus was saying last week that this behaviour isn't great
> (and neither was the original behaviour), so there may be more
> patches to improve how LICENSE works.

I opened a discussion on the architecture list:
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-architecture/2016-
August/000218.html

I'll hopefully have some patches after a satisfying solution is found.

Thanks,
  Markus



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