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

Andreas Müller schnitzeltony at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 31 14:59:46 UTC 2016


On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:41:29AM +0200, Andreas Müller wrote:
>> 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...
>
> There are more issues in geany-plugins:
>
> geany-plugins-1.27: geany-plugins: Files/directories were installed but not shipped in any package:
>   /usr/lib/geany/git-changebar.so
> Please set FILES such that these items are packaged. Alternatively if they are unneeded, avoid installing them or delete them within do_install.
> geany-plugins: 1 installed and not shipped files. [installed-vs-shipped]
> geany-plugins-1.27: geany-plugins-scope rdepends on libvte9, but it isn't a build dependency, missing vte9 in DEPENDS or PACKAGECONFIG? [build-deps]
> geany-plugins-1.27: geany-plugins-debugger rdepends on libvte9, but it isn't a build dependency, missing vte9 in DEPENDS or PACKAGECONFIG? [build-deps]
> geany-plugins-1.27: geany-plugins-multiterm rdepends on libvte9, but it isn't a build dependency, missing vte9 in DEPENDS or PACKAGECONFIG? [build-deps]
>
> It would be nice if someone actually using it send some fixes.
>
> If nobody does in next week, I'll add PNBLACKLIST.
>
Heard :) I will fix it. Don't ask when - my master images are broken
as never seen before thanks to gcc-6 and cmake modifications.

Andreas



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