[yocto] [opkg-devel] [OE-core][opkg-utils ] Bug 13528 : adding SPDX license identifier

[richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]

On Fri, 2019-10-11 at 15:54 +0000, Alejandro Del Castillo wrote:
> On 10/11/19 8:51 AM, Ycn aKaJoseph wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13528 
> > <
> > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13528__;!fqWJcnlTkjM!8RtsWJXbDz_l063ZSVKrRMwvQ5KGdD0lk9aSjlUW9VHM2wufITJnBuIvovQxoT0yJXu-6Q$
> > >
> > 
> > I'm about to work on that bug however most of the script in opkg-
> > utils 
> > dir are un-licenced and there's no hint for me to decide what SPDX 
> > Identifier to add.
> 
> thanks for doing this!
> 
> > The doubt concerns those script :
> > makePackage
> > opkg-build
> > opkg-buildpackage
> > opkg-compare-indexes
> > opkg-diff
> > opkg-extract-file
> > opkg-graph-deps
> > opkg-list-fields
> > opkg-make-index
> > opkg-show-deps
> > opkg-unbuild
> > opkg-update-index
> > 
> > What license do you want them to carry ?
> 
> Looking at the commit history, opkg-graph-deps was authored by Haris 
> Okanovic, and the rest by Richard Purdie (included them on the
> thread).
> 
> My take on it:  since opkg is licensed as GPLv2+, and the files that 
> have a license in opkg-utils are GPLv2+, make sense to me to license
> the rest as GPLv2+ too.

I didn't author these, they were imported from ipkg-utils which was
part of handhelds.org. I did modify things quite a bit during the
import.

handhelds.org's CVS repos aren't there any more but I do have old
sources lying around locally. I have a snapshot of the CVS repo from
20050930 and it has GPLv2 COPYING file (not 2+, just 2).

I'd suggest we follow the original licensing of that and go with GPLv2.

Cheers,

Richard