[yocto] /usr/share/common-license package/recipeinfo contains GPLv3 info

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Fri May 24 01:42:05 PDT 2019


On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 10:43, virendra kumar thakur
<coolveer07 at gmail.com> wrote:
> But I can see in rootfs/usr/share/common-license/package/libgcrypt-lic/recipeinfo
>
> LICENSE: GPLV2+ &LGPLV2.1+ &GPLV3+
> PR: r0
> PV : 1.8.4

At a guess, because the libgcrypt recipe is:

LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+ & GPLv3+"

Whereas libgcrypt itself is:

LICENSE_${PN} = "LGPLv2.1+"

That's a bit of a meta-question: what license is a license package
that only contains license texts?

Ross


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