[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] geany-plugins: include GPLv3 in the main LICENSE

Martin Jansa martin.jansa at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 08:28:42 UTC 2016


The warning is right in what it says.

The LICENSE variable now needs to contain all LICENSEs used in the recipe
(all packages), see discussion on oe-core ML.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Andreas Müller <
schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > * since last changes in oe-core LICENSE variable needs to list all
> licenses used
> >   by individual packages otherwise bitbake warning like this is shown:
> >   WARNING: meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/geany/geany-
> plugins_1.27.bb: LICENSE_geany-plugins-commander includes licenses
> (GPLv3) that are not listed in LICENSE
> >   as possible improvement you can set LICENSE to GPLv2 to all plugins
> >   which are GPLv2-only, because now they will "inherit" both GPLv2 &
> >   GPLv3 which sucks as described here:
> >   https://www.mail-archive.com/openembedded-core@lists.
> openembedded.org/msg81645.html
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  meta-oe/recipes-devtools/geany/geany-plugins_1.27.bb | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/geany/geany-plugins_1.27.bb
> b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/geany/geany-plugins_1.27.bb
> > index 9a39150..5e1e721 100644
> > --- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/geany/geany-plugins_1.27.bb
> > +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/geany/geany-plugins_1.27.bb
> > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> >  DESCRIPTION = "A fast and lightweight IDE"
> >  HOMEPAGE = "http://plugins.geany.org/"
> >  # majority's default
> > -LICENSE = "GPLv2"
> > +LICENSE = "GPLv2 & GPLv3"
> >
> >  DEPENDS = "geany lua libxml2 libsoup-2.4 vte enchant intltool-native
> libassuan gpgme"
> >
> > --
> > 2.9.2
> >
> NAK: The warning is wrong see recipe below contains
>
> LICENSE_${PN}-commander = "GPLv3"
>
> Andreas
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