[meta-virtualization] [PATCH 1/5] libvirt: Change license to LGPLv2.1+

Jonas Eriksson jonas.eriksson at enea.com
Wed Feb 26 02:07:53 PST 2014


libvirt is to a large extent licensed under LGPLv2.1 (or later) rather
than GPLv2. From my investigations, there are only some tests and a
couple of files under tools are licensed as GPL. Other than that, files
are generally licensed as LGPL. My recommendation is therefore to set
the default license to LGPLv2.1+, and to add a LICENSE_${PN}-ptest that
is set to LGPLv2.1+ & GPLv2+ if a ptest package is added. This is
preferred to avoid having to specify explicit licenses for every other
package, such as the auto generated libvirt-locale-XX packages.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Eriksson <jonas.eriksson at enea.com>
---
 recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_1.2.1.bb | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_1.2.1.bb b/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_1.2.1.bb
index 3b95486..d30f09d 100644
--- a/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_1.2.1.bb
+++ b/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_1.2.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux." 
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libvirt.org"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
+                    file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 SECTION = "console/tools"
 PR = "r1"
 
-- 
1.9.rc1



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