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

André Draszik git at andred.net
Tue Aug 30 08:39:26 UTC 2016


On Mo, 2016-08-29 at 22:52 +0200, Martin Jansa 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/ms
> g81645.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

     ^^^^^^^^^^
To avoid confusion, it'd be good to remove this comment as well as it's not
only the majority of licenses anymore

Cheers,
Andre'


> -LICENSE = "GPLv2"
> +LICENSE = "GPLv2 & GPLv3"
>  
>  DEPENDS = "geany lua libxml2 libsoup-2.4 vte enchant intltool-native
> libassuan gpgme"
>  
> -- 
> 2.9.2
> 



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