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

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Jonas Eriksson <jonas.eriksson at enea.com> wrote:
> 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.

Acked-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com>

>
> 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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