| Submitter | Elizabeth Flanagan |
|---|---|
| Date | Oct. 2, 2012, 11:01 p.m. |
| Message ID | <31141073add21ef176638e48bff752832901bb78.1349218820.git.elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com> |
| Download | mbox | patch |
| Permalink | /patch/37641/ |
| State | Accepted |
| Commit | a0b132798d2c1adf79414787b8317327a554f852 |
| Headers | show |
Comments
Hello, On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Elizabeth Flanagan <elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com> wrote: > The license for bzip2 is not quite BSD. I have an email out to the > maintainer to see if we can utilize a common BSD license (or something > else) however, for now, we should revert bzip2 back to a special > license. > > As busybox also utilizes a lightly modified bzip2, this also > effects busybox. > > Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Flanagan <elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com> Please send it for denzil-next as well.
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 09:21:53AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Elizabeth Flanagan > <elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com> wrote: > > The license for bzip2 is not quite BSD. I have an email out to the > > maintainer to see if we can utilize a common BSD license (or something > > else) however, for now, we should revert bzip2 back to a special > > license. > > > > As busybox also utilizes a lightly modified bzip2, this also > > effects busybox. > > > > Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Flanagan <elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com> > > Please send it for denzil-next as well. Maybe with PR bumps as license is part of packaged metadata. > > -- > Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems > E-mail: otavio@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br > Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
Patch
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc index 33e01a4..972e7d0 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc +++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc @@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.busybox.net/" # bzip2 applet in busybox is based on lightly-modified bzip2 source # the GPL is version 2 only -# bzip2 is not a bzip2 license (no such thing) -LICENSE = "GPLv2 & BSD-4-Clause" +LICENSE = "GPLv2 & bzip2" LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=de10de48642ab74318e893a61105afbb" SECTION = "base" diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb index 5f92deb..d03b57d 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors." HOMEPAGE = "http://www.bzip.org/" SECTION = "console/utils" -LICENSE = "BSD-4-Clause" +LICENSE = "bzip2" LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;beginline=8;endline=37;md5=40d9d1eb05736d1bfc86cfdd9106e6b2" PR = "r5"
The license for bzip2 is not quite BSD. I have an email out to the maintainer to see if we can utilize a common BSD license (or something else) however, for now, we should revert bzip2 back to a special license. As busybox also utilizes a lightly modified bzip2, this also effects busybox. Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Flanagan <elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com> --- meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc | 3 +-- meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)