[oe] The license of hostapd v2.6

[Yong Zhang (AUTO-BI)]

Hi Andre / openembedded team, 

May I ask why the hostapd license is set to "GPLv2 | BSD"? According to the information we get, the hostapd license is "BSD". Could you provide the basis of "GPLv2" license?


Thanks,
Yong

-----Original Message-----
From: Yong Zhang (AUTO-BI) 
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2018 3:24 PM
To: 'Andre McCurdy' <armccurdy at gmail.com>
Cc: openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org
Subject: RE: [oe] The license of hostapd v2.6

Hi Andre,

Thanks. I find I made a mistake.
http://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/hostapd/hostapd_2.6.bb?h=pyro
http://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/hostapd/hostapd_2.5.bb?h=krogoth

Yong




-----Original Message-----
From: Andre McCurdy [mailto:armccurdy at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2018 10:24 AM
To: Yong Zhang (AUTO-BI) <zyong at qti.qualcomm.com>
Cc: openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [oe] The license of hostapd v2.6

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 6:00 PM, Yong Zhang (AUTO-BI) <zyong at qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
>
> I am doing Yocto2.3 upgrade which also update meta-openembedded layer. I find that the version of package hostapd is updated from 2.5 to 2.6. And the license is updated from "BSD" to "GPLv2 | BSD" in hostapd recipe. As I know, There is no change in the hostapd licensing terms between 2.5 and 2.6 releases or anything that has happened since 2.6; nor are there plans of changing the license in the future. Why do you put dual license in hostapd recipe?

The LICENSE value in the meta-oe hostapd recipe has been set to "GPLv2
| BSD" since the original recipe was first added in 2012:

  http://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/?id=7839b41773962011696ed02924136b00447cb382

Which recipe are you looking at when you see the LICENSE value has changed during the update from hostapd 2.5 to 2.6 ?