On Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:56:09 Marek Vasut wrote: > On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 at 06:52:12 PM, Khem Raj wrote: > > > On Feb 9, 2016, at 4:07 AM, Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> wrote: > > > > > > On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 at 12:53:01 PM, Burton, Ross wrote: > > >> On 9 February 2016 at 11:31, Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> wrote: > > >>> -LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = > > >>> "file://LICENSE;md5=0f060c30a27922ce9c0d557a639b4fa3 \ > > >>> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = > > >>> "file://LICENSE;md5=e548d28737289d75a8f1e01ba2fd7825 \ > > >> > > >> Why did the license checksum change? > > > > > > Because the LICENSE file now contains one more entry for nios2, which > > > changed the checksum of the whole file. Maybe we should trim the > > > checksum to use only the header in the LICENSE file and not the whole > > > file to prevent this ? > > > > > > This is the change which triggered the change of the checksum: > > > > > > +diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE > > > +index 3147094..a06fdcc 100644 > > > +--- a/LICENSE > > > ++++ b/LICENSE > > > +@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ compiler.h > > > + arch/s390.h > > > + uatomic/alpha.h > > > + uatomic/mips.h > > > ++uatomic/nios2.h > > > > I don’t know how the LICENSE file looks like but including file names in > > license file is probably worth ignoring in checksums. > > See below: > > Userspace RCU library licensing > Mathieu Desnoyers > September 3, 2012 > > > * LGPLv2.1 > > The library part is distributed under LGPLv2.1 or later. See lgpl-2.1.txt > for license details. Refer to the individual file headers for details. > > LGPL-compatible source code can statically use the library header using : > > #define _LGPL_SOURCE > #include <urcu.h> > > Dynamic-only linking with the LGPL library is used if _LGPL_SOURCE is not > defined. It permits relinking with newer versions of the library, which is > required by the LGPL license. > > See lgpl-relicensing.txt for details. > > > * MIT-style license : > > xchg() primitive has been rewritten from scratch starting from atomic_ops > 1.2 which has a MIT-style license that is intended to allow use in both > free and proprietary software: > http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/atomic_ops/LICENSING.txt > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/ > > This MIT-style license (BSD like) apply to: > > uatomic/gcc.h > uatomic/unknown.h > uatomic/generic.h > uatomic/sparc64.h > uatomic/arm.h > uatomic/ppc.h > uatomic/x86.h > uatomic.h > > MIT/X11 (BSD like) license apply to: > > compiler.h > arch/s390.h > uatomic/alpha.h > uatomic/mips.h > uatomic/nios2.h > uatomic/s390.h > system.h > > > * GPLv2 > > Library test code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. See gpl-2.0.txt > for license details. See headers of individual files under tests/ for > details. > > > * GPLv3 (or later) > > The following build-related macro is under GPLv3 (or later): > > m4/ax_tls.m4
If you only point to part of this file you are risking missing the addition of just about any license to the end of the list on a future upgrade. That doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
