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

[Kumita Bruce]

I understand, thanks a lot.


Cheers,

Bruce


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Kumita Bruce <bruce.kumita at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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