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

[Kumita Bruce]

So for |, user only needs to comply with either one, for &, user needs to
follow all, right?


Cheers,

Bruce


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:

> 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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