[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH 4/4] faad2: set LICENSE_FLAGS

Joshua Watt jpewhacker at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 21:09:02 UTC 2019


On Mon, 2018-08-13 at 19:50 +0200, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Commercial usage requires a license according to the homepage, so set
> LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial" to indicate that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/faad2/faad2_2.7.bb | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/faad2/faad2_2.7.bb b/meta-
> oe/recipes-multimedia/faad2/faad2_2.7.bb
> index b777831ad..9e5a3817a 100644
> --- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/faad2/faad2_2.7.bb
> +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/faad2/faad2_2.7.bb
> @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv2"
>  
>  LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
> "file://COPYING;md5=381c8cbe277a7bc1ee2ae6083a04c958"
>  
> +LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial"
> +

My understanding was that faad2 was GPLv2, but you could *optionally*
get a commercial license for it if you needed one. Is the LICENSE_FLAG
necessary in that case? It seems like the default license of GPLv2
would apply unless you worked something out with them to get a
commercial license?

>  PR = "r1"
>  
>  inherit autotools
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
-- 
Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker at gmail.com>



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