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

[Alejandro Del Castillo]

merged, thanks!

On 10/15/19 2:58 PM, Alejandro Del Castillo wrote:
> 
> 
> 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13528__;!fqWJcnlTkjM!4_UTkft6YvqISMi_ZyxT3nbBDdxbyllWZ59OHmmikFQqAnQ-ln7pGeLjNidedeIGY0iDgA$
>>      <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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> 

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Cheers,

Alejandro