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

Alejandro Del Castillo alejandro.delcastillo at ni.com
Tue Oct 15 12:58:02 PDT 2019



On 10/14/19 7:36 AM, Ycn aKaJoseph wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> GPL-2.0-only was applied to script without previous Licences and 
> GPL-2.0-or-later to those mentioning it, however I'm wondering if I 
> should also add a SPDX id to the makefile ?
> 
> Here's first attempt without identifier to the Makefile.

I don't have a preference regarding adding a SPDX identifier for the 
Makefile. If I don't see any comments one way or the other, I will pull 
the patch in, by the end of the week.

thanks again for taking care of this,

Alejandro

> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 6:45 PM <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org 
> <mailto:richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>> wrote:
> 
>     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!4ZugVhFkOciFucw9FbYbLCErJ647XFyLvF76MP_0Uo4F8sa51hi1GbwmPmZTisU17VqszQ$>
> 
>      > > <
>      > >
>     https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13528__;!fqWJcnlTkjM!8RtsWJXbDz_l063ZSVKrRMwvQ5KGdD0lk9aSjlUW9VHM2wufITJnBuIvovQxoT0yJXu-6Q$
>      > > >
>      > >
>      > > 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
>     <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://handhelds.org__;!fqWJcnlTkjM!4ZugVhFkOciFucw9FbYbLCErJ647XFyLvF76MP_0Uo4F8sa51hi1GbwmPmZTisWdWuYokA$>.
>     I did modify things quite a bit during the
>     import.
> 
>     handhelds.org
>     <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://handhelds.org__;!fqWJcnlTkjM!4ZugVhFkOciFucw9FbYbLCErJ647XFyLvF76MP_0Uo4F8sa51hi1GbwmPmZTisWdWuYokA$>'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
> 
> 
> 
> 


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