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

[Andreas Mueller]

On Friday, July 29, 2011 11:05:24 PM Paul Menzel wrote:
> 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.
> 
Sure :-)

Andreas