[oe] oe-core license description practices

[Peter Bigot]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
> 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.

I have done that.  Please see the material I quoted below my question,
and let me know how to proceed based on my description of what I found
in the package.  Perhaps I'm being too careful, but I didn't find it
clear enough to warrant unilaterally re-characterizing the licensing.
Thanks.

Peter

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