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

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 2:09 PM Joshua Watt <jpewhacker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

Sometimes the use determines the license enforcement. e.g. it might
be GPLed for personal use but not for selling products.

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