[meta-virtualization] [PATCH] libvirt: update list of licenses

Bruce Ashfield bruce.ashfield at windriver.com
Wed Aug 31 08:05:03 PDT 2016


On 2016-08-31 11:00 AM, Mark Asselstine wrote:
> Apparently if a license is listed for a package it must be included in
> the overall LICENSE variable otherwise you will get WARNINGS such as:
>
>     WARNING: LICENSE_libvirt-ptest includes licenses (LGPLv2.1 GPLv2+)
>     that are not listed in LICENSE
>
> We ensure that the license string is consistent between the LICENSE
> variable and the subpackage license string to remove this
> warning. Since '2+' is a superset of '2', ie. "version 2 or later",
> and actually is more reflective of the text found on the file headers
> and such we use GPLv2+ and LGPLv2.1+.

merged.

Bruce

>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine at windriver.com>
> ---
>  recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_1.3.5.bb | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_1.3.5.bb b/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_1.3.5.bb
> index 6222b69..7271ebe 100644
> --- a/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_1.3.5.bb
> +++ b/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_1.3.5.bb
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  DESCRIPTION = "A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux."
>  HOMEPAGE = "http://libvirt.org"
> -LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
> -LICENSE_${PN}-ptest = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1"
> +LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+ & GPLv2+"
> +LICENSE_${PN}-ptest = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+"
>  LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
>                      file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=4b54a1fd55a448865a0b32d41598759d"
>  SECTION = "console/tools"
>



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