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

Ulf Samuelsson ulf at emagii.com
Wed Sep 30 22:08:00 UTC 2015


Right now, it gives a warning during build.
Just because some think we should support both, it does not mean we have to *use* both.
Applying the patch should fix the warning message, which should be priority one.


Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson

> 30 sep 2015 kl. 13:58 skrev Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>:
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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