[OE-core] [PATCH] LICENSE: Clarify what is meant by 'metadata'

Saul Wold sgw at linux.intel.com
Mon Feb 27 16:24:25 UTC 2017


The term metadata in the LICENSE text is unclear and recently
garnered some questions at ELC, so clarify metadata to include
bbclasses, which is and has been metadata as well as code.

Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com>
---
 LICENSE | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 21fa6e6..9783ee5 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ meta/COPYING.MIT (MIT)
 meta-selftest/COPYING.MIT (MIT)
 meta-skeleton/COPYING.MIT (MIT)
 
-All metadata is MIT licensed unless otherwise stated. Source code
-included in tree for individual recipes is under the LICENSE stated in
-the associated recipe (.bb file) unless otherwise stated.
+All metadata files (including, but not limited to bb, bbappend,
+bbclass, inc and conf files) are MIT licensed unless otherwise stated.
+Source code included in tree for individual recipes is under the
+LICENSE stated in the associated recipe (.bb file) unless otherwise
+stated.
 
 License information for any other files is either explicitly stated 
 or defaults to GPL version 2.
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2.7.4




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