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

Andreas Müller schnitzeltony at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 30 08:33:06 UTC 2016


On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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"
>>
Ahh another 'design' decision I have problems with..

Andreas



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