[oe] oe-core license description practices

Chris Larson clarson at kergoth.com
Sun Jan 15 16:05:19 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Peter Bigot <bigotp at acm.org> wrote:
> http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/OpenEmbedded-Core states that the
> LICENSE field should be "as correct as possible (e.g. 'GPLv2', not
> just 'GPL')".  If the upstream package self-describes as "GPL", is it
> necessary that this be refined to a more specific version?

Generally they may say they're GPL, but are actually GPLv2+ or
similar. Read the actual license text included in the source tree, and
the headers of the files.
-- 
Christopher Larson




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