[yocto] [meta-cgl][PATCH] heartbeat: fix license issue

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 16 February 2015 09:18:29 Alexandru Vaduva wrote:
> After a quick inspection I observed the following:
> 
>                     Inside heartbeat-suse.spec the next information:
> License:        GPL v2 only; LGPL v2.1 or later Link here:
> http://hg.linux-ha.org/heartbeat-STABLE_3_0/file/545554f6fc0a/heartbeat-sus
> e.spec 
>                     Inside heartbeat-fedora.spec the next information:
> License:          GPLv2 and LGPLv2+  
> Link here:
> http://hg.linux-ha.org/heartbeat-STABLE_3_0/file/545554f6fc0a/heartbeat-fed
> ora.spec 
> I added Lars Ellenberg one of the authors behind heartbeat or drbd to the
> discussion.
> Hello Lars, sorry for disturbing you but maybe you could help
> us with our little problem. 
> If anyone from the Yocto Project community has any input on this matter
> please help.
> For me at least this problem is not clear. Should the “|”
> sign remain or should it be replaced with the “&” one between the licenses.

What you have found above correlates with what Chris was saying - both 
licenses apply, therefore you must use &.
 
Cheers,
Paul
 

> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org]
> On Behalf Of Christopher Larson
> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 4:01 PM
> To: Armin Kuster
> Cc: yocto
> Subject: Re: [yocto] [meta-cgl][PATCH] heartbeat: fix license issue
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Armin Kuster
> <akuster808 at gmail.com<mailto:akuster808 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> -LICENSE = "GPLv2 LGPLv2+"
> +LICENSE = "GPLv2 | LGPLv2+"
> 
> Are you sure this is correct? Afaict this is wrong, as there are parts of
> the source tree under the GPL, and parts under LGPL, which means it's an
> AND relationship -- both apply, not an OR relationship, where you can
> choose which to use.

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre