On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Phil Blundell <ph...@gnu.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 11:34 -0800, Beth Flanagan wrote: >> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_444.bb >> b/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_444.bb >> index c78dbaa..f198692 100644 >> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_444.bb >> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_444.bb >> @@ -7,11 +7,14 @@ SECTION = "console/utils" >> >> # (GPLv2+ (<< 418), GPLv3+ (>= 418)) | less >> # less is a 2-clause BSD-like permissive license >> -LICENSE = "GPLv3+ | less" >> +# Reading LICENSE and COPYING indicate that GPL-3+ is suffient. >> +# openSuse .spec and Debian seem to agree here. setting to GPL-3+ >> + >> +LICENSE = "GPLv3+" > > This change is rather misleading. The point of the "Less > License" (effectively 2-clause BSD) option given by the README is that > it provides a non-GPLv3 route for distributing the binaries -- i.e. > makes the package usable by people who can't tolerate GPLv3 for whatever > reason. If the recipe is marked as simply GPLv3+ then it will appear > unusable to those folks. > > If we have to pick just a single license for less then it seems that the > BSD one would be a better choice than GPLv3+. > > p.
I have an email out to the author to verify if it would be ok to use BSD-2-Clause. If so, we can switch it to that. If not, we'll add less as a license type. Sound ok? -b > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- Elizabeth Flanagan Yocto Project Build and Release _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
