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

[Paul Menzel]

Am Freitag, den 29.07.2011, 13:38 -0700 schrieb Flanagan, Elizabeth:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:01 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«.
> 
> The LICENSE field generally has a few requirements to work correctly
> for license.bbclass. One, it should be python-esque to parse
> correctly. Two, it should use one of two standards. If you look in
> meta/files/common-licenses you'll see a list of license text from
> SPDX. If you look in license.bbclass, you'll also see a bunch of
> mappings for backwards compatability:
> 
> SPDXLICENSEMAP[MIT-X] = "MIT"
> 
> LICENSE should use either the file name in common-licenses, or, the
> mapping. In this case, we have the mapping for LICENSE, so MIT-X is
> perfectly valid.

Thank you for the detailed explanation.

> > [1] http://www.xfree86.org/current/LICENSE5.html
> > [2] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/x11-xserver-utils/x11-xserver-utils_7.6+3/x11-xserver-utils.copyright
> > [3] http://gpo.zugaina.org/x11-apps/iceauth/euscan
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net>
> > ---
> > I do not know anything about license names and just checked the WWW. It would be great if the OE crowd could decide on one name and use it consistently.
> 
> Agreed.

As replied to Andreas, oe-core also seems to use that inconsistently –
just from a style point of course. It would be great to get your opinion
on the other issue like licenses in include files too.

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Thanks,

Paul
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