[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] geany-plugins: include GPLv3 in the main LICENSE
Andreas Müller
schnitzeltony at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 30 08:41:29 UTC 2016
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:39 AM, André Draszik <git at andred.net> wrote:
> 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
>>
And probably a note that 90% of license information is wrong...
Andreas
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