<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 March 2016 at 12:29, Phil Blundell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pb@pbcl.net" target="_blank">pb@pbcl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":4m5" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">This morning it came to my notice that libxdmcp, and a bunch of other<br>
files (mostly, though not exclusively, in xorg-libs) contain things<br>
like:<br>
<br>
LICENSE = "MIT-style"<br>
<br>
It's not very clear to me whether "MIT-style" is meant to mean "an<br>
unspecified license in the same general style as the MIT one" or whether<br>
it refers to a single concrete license. (There is no MIT-style in<br>
meta/files/common-licenses.)<br>
<br>
Does anybody happen to know what the intended meaning of this license<br>
is?</div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>So the license class has a mapping to let people use a variety of different strings to mean the same actual license. For example all the variations of GPLv2 (GPL-2, GPLv2, GPLv2.0) all map to the SPDX canonical name of GPL-2.0.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ditto, MIT-style and MIT-X all map to MIT.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>Considering xorg-lib-common.inc already sets LICENSE="MIT-X" and these recipes are overriding that assignment, we should probably remove all instances of MIT-style from the xorg recipes as they should probably be MIT-X.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></div>