[poky] [oe] libcdaudio license issue

Saul Wold saul.wold at intel.com
Mon Dec 6 18:38:15 PST 2010


On 12/06/2010 02:52 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> 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, sorry I saw this via my poky email and did not notice it was OE 
also, I will what what I cross post next time!

Glad to hear that you like the idea!  We will have all Poky recipes 
checksummed this week!

Sau!




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