[oe] [PATCHv2] recipe licenses: update recipe LICENSE fields

[Maupin, Chase]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
> [mailto:openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
> Denys Dmytriyenko
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:16 PM
> To: openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [oe] [PATCHv2] recipe licenses: update recipe LICENSE fields
> 
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 02:53:59PM -0500, Maupin, Chase wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if it is a policy. Haven't seen it being pulished as such.
> > > Having said that, I have no problems with it (although there is no
> > > problem with enforcing patents or so for v2+ , as that still falls
> > > under the v2 umbrella).
> > >
> > > I guess most of our recipes that say GPLv2 are wrong and are v2+.
> > > It might be hard to distinguish between these though, it could well be
> > > that the license file says v2 and a comment in the code says v2+.
> > > Glad I do not have to deal with this any more....
> >
> > Frans,
> >
> > That is exactly the issue that is so annoying.  The COPYING file usually
> > says the standard GPLv2, but if you go and read the license text in the
> code
> > that is where it says GPLv2 (or later) so GPLv2+.  This patch was
> modified
> > to go off the license in the code since that is more likely what the
> > developer actually intended and not an auto-generated file.
> >
> > Koen,
> >
> > What about GPLv3 licensed files with an exception?  Right now I have
> that as
> > GPLv3+exception.  Was there ever any discussion about how to handle
> these?
> > I am trying to indicate that it is not a standard GPLv3 license.
> 
> Chase,
> 
> Does it say what kind of exception it is? If it has a name, it's better to
> specify it. For libgcc/libstdc++ I ended up specifying "GPLv3 with GCC
> RLE",
> which stands for GCC Runtime Library Exception:

Denys,

The COPYING.EXCEPTION file has the title "AUTOCONF CONFIGURE SCRIPT EXCEPTION".  Would you like this changed to "GPLv3 with Autoconf CSE"?

> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception.html
> 
> --
> Denys
> 
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