[oe] [PATCH] Use GFDL-1.1 instead of GFDLv1.1

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Wed Sep 30 11:58:44 UTC 2015


Yes I'm aware of that. What I was pointing out is that usually we have an 
SPDXLICENSEMAP setting to map e.g. GPLv2 -> GPL-2.0; there is no such mapping 
for GFDL; I guess the assumption was that there was.

Cheers,
Paul

On Wednesday 30 September 2015 13:53:08 Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> There is no GFDLv1.1 file in the license directory
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------ openembedded-core/meta/files/common-licenses$ ls GFDL*
> 
> GFDL-1.1  GFDL-1.2  GFDL-1.3
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> 
> It does not make sense to have a duplicate file.
> 
> Incidently, the GFDL-1.1 file contains the GFDL-1.2 license, not the 1.1
> license.
> 
> /Ulf
> 
> Den 2015-09-30 kl. 13:05, skrev Paul Eggleton:
> > On Wednesday 30 September 2015 03:10:56 Khem Raj wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:26 AM, Ulf Samuelsson <ulf at emagii.com> wrote:
> >>> -LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2 & GFDLv1.1"
> >>> +LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2 & GFDL-1.1"
> >> 
> >> IIRC both are correct
> > 
> > I don't think we have an SPDXLICENSEMAP entry for this though, so it won't
> > be being mapped (unlike GPLv2 -> GPL-2.0).
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Paul

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Paul Eggleton
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