[yocto] The difference of & and | in LICENSE definition

[Chris Larson]

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Kumita Bruce <bruce.kumita at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know whether this is the right place to ask the question. Hope to
> get some help from here.
>
> I see below two types definition of LICENSE in Yocto recipe:
> LICENSE = "license-1 & license-2"
> LICENSE = "license-1 | license-2"
>
> Can somebody help to give some explanation for the difference of those two
> formats? And how to determinate which format should be used for a package.
>

& is AND.
| is OR.

Some software can be licensed under this OR that license, others have
components which are under a variety of different licenses (AND).
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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