[yocto] Regarding Licensing of "mbsalign.c" available in util-linux-2.21.2 version (Yocto-1.3-Danny)

[Gaurang Shastri]

Thanks for replying on this.

FYI, I have already open a bug for this:
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4014

Regards,
Gaurang Shastri

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 03/11/2013 10:17 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:45 AM, Gaurang Shastri <gmshastri at gmail.com
>> <mailto:gmshastri at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi All,
>>>
>>> Any shades of light for below query ???
>>>
>>>
>> I would suggest to open a bug for it.
>>
>>  Timing is on this one!
>
> I noticed this recently independent of this email!
>
> I have contacted the maintainer of util-linux to clarify the license of
> mbsalign.c as it's used directly by cal and lslocks and included in the
> common library.
>
> As it also turns out the original reason that util-linux was marked as
> GPLv3 because of lscpu, which is now be changed back to GPLv2.
>
> I will keep people posted on this one.
>
> We try to do our best to keep the license information up to date and
> sometimes files under core licenses slip by. As upstreams projects start to
> use SPDX this kind of problem can be avoided.
>
> Thanks for pointing it out.
>
> Sau!
>
>
>
>
>  //Gaurang Shastri
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Gaurang Shastri <gmshastri at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:gmshastri at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi All,
>>>
>>>     I have some concerns regarding util-linux-2.21.2 version . As per
>>>     Yocto-1.3 (danny) recipe,
>>>     {{{
>>>
>>>     LICENSE_${PN}-lscpu = "GPLv3+"  <-- util-linux_2.21.2.bb
>>>     <http://util-linux_2.21.2.bb/>
>>>
>>>
>>>     LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+ & BSD"   <-- util-linux.inc
>>>
>>>     }}}
>>>
>>>     So as per the above description, only lscpu is GPLv3.
>>>
>>>     But while looking into the source of util-linux-2.21.2, I found
>>>     out that "util-linux-2.21.2/lib/**mbsalign.c" is GPLv3 and it is
>>>     used by following binaries while building:
>>>     {{{
>>>       -  fdisk
>>>       -  partx
>>>     }}}
>>>
>>>     So does it mean that the above binaries should also be GPLv3 and
>>>     need to take care in util-linux.{bb,inc} ???
>>>
>>>     Regards,
>>>     Gaurang Shastri
>>>
>>>
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