[poky] [oe] libcdaudio license issue

Denys Dmytriyenko denis at denix.org
Mon Dec 6 14:52:36 PST 2010


On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:50:10PM -0800, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 12/06/2010 11:48 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>> I was checking libcdaudio for LICENSE info.
>> recipe says GPL
>> COPYING file is the GPLv2 one
>> README file says:
>>
>> libcdaudio is distributed under the GNU Library General Public
>> License, included in this package under the top level source directory
>> in the file COPYING
>>
>> C files also mention LGPL. but say v2 or later
>>
>> What to do with this in the LICENSE field? LGPLv2+ ?
>>
> This seems reasonable, you should also include the header chunk in the 
> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM, you can specify start and end lines for the checksum.

Saul,

We don't have this feature in OpenEmbedded yet... But it would be nice to port 
it from Poky though! :)

-- 
Denys



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