[oe] [PATCH 2/2] iceauth: Add `LICENSE = "MIT-X"`

[Paul Menzel]

Am Freitag, den 29.07.2011, 22:48 +0200 schrieb Andreas Mueller:
> On Friday, July 29, 2011 09:01:05 PM Paul Menzel wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:47:22 +0200
> > 
> > This license is listed online for example at the Web site of XFree86 [1],
> > Debian [2]. No name of the license is mentioned there. Gentoo just uses
> > »MIT« [3].
> > 
> > There are some packages in OpenEmbedded using `MIT-X` and I guess they
> > refer to the same license. I prefer »X/MIT« derived from the chapter name
> > of [1] »MIT/X Licenses«.
> > 
> > [1] http://www.xfree86.org/current/LICENSE5.html
> > [2]
> > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/x11-xserver-utils/x11-xs
> > erver-utils_7.6+3/x11-xserver-utils.copyright [3]
> > http://gpo.zugaina.org/x11-apps/iceauth/euscan
> oe-core seems to prefer MIT too [1].

They named the file name MIT. But a lot of `xorg*` packages seem to use
`MIT-X`, especially `xorg-app/xorg-app-common.inc`.

        $ git grep MIT-X
        meta/classes/license.bbclass:SPDXLICENSEMAP[MIT-X] = "MIT"
        meta/recipes-graphics/xcb/libxcb.inc:LICENSE = "MIT-X"
        meta/recipes-graphics/xcb/xcb-proto.inc:LICENSE = "MIT-X"
        meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-app/xorg-app-common.inc:LICENSE = "MIT-X"
        meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-driver/xf86-driver-common.inc:LICENSE = "MIT-X"
        meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-driver/xf86-video-omapfb_git.bb:LICENSE = "MIT-X"
        meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-font/xorg-font-common.inc:LICENSE = "MIT-X"
        meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-lib/xorg-lib-common.inc:LICENSE = "MIT-X"
        meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-proto/xorg-proto-common.inc:LICENSE = "MIT-X"
        meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-util/xorg-util-common.inc:LICENSE = "MIT-X"
        meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xf86-common.inc:LICENSE = "MIT-X"
        meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xf86-config_0.1.bb:LICENSE = "MIT-X"

So is this patch superfluous, because `LICENSE` is defined in the
include file?

Regarding the name, in oe.dev most other recipes from The Open Group
have `LICENSE = "MIT"`.

Is it useful to set `LICENSE` in an include file? We should decide that
first.

> iceauth license looks same but appends additional sentence.

Actually the wording is quite different besides the capitalized
paragraph.

> So if no objections I will coose MIT in next version of patch for
> meta-oe.

It is even inconsistent in oe-core, so I really do not care much. But
first the question above needs to be answered.

And Andreas, you could wait until I update the recipe in oe.dev and just
copy it then to save you some time.


Thanks,

Paul


> [1] http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded-core/tree/meta/files/common-licenses/MIT
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