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

Denys Dmytriyenko denis at denix.org
Wed Oct 20 19:03:26 UTC 2010


On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 08:57:01PM +0200, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> On 10/20/2010 08:37 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 01:27:54PM -0500, Maupin, Chase wrote:
> >>> 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"?
> > 
> > Chase,
> > 
> > Either "GPLv3 with Autoconf CSE" or even "GPLv3 with Autoconf Configure 
> > Script Exception"... I'm not sure CSE is as common as RLE - here's the 
> > list of current GNU exceptions:
> 
> GCC and Autoconf both being GNU projects, their license is probably not
> GPLv3, but GPLv3+ (with some exception), in the discussed notation. ;-)

Interesting point! We should try to be future-proof with GPLv3+ too :) 
Although I haven't seen anyone using it this way, as it's not relevant yet.

-- 
Denys




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