On 16 March 2016 at 12:29, Phil Blundell <p...@pbcl.net> wrote: > This morning it came to my notice that libxdmcp, and a bunch of other > files (mostly, though not exclusively, in xorg-libs) contain things > like: > > LICENSE = "MIT-style" > > It's not very clear to me whether "MIT-style" is meant to mean "an > unspecified license in the same general style as the MIT one" or whether > it refers to a single concrete license. (There is no MIT-style in > meta/files/common-licenses.) > > Does anybody happen to know what the intended meaning of this license > is? >
So the license class has a mapping to let people use a variety of different strings to mean the same actual license. For example all the variations of GPLv2 (GPL-2, GPLv2, GPLv2.0) all map to the SPDX canonical name of GPL-2.0. Ditto, MIT-style and MIT-X all map to MIT. Considering xorg-lib-common.inc already sets LICENSE="MIT-X" and these recipes are overriding that assignment, we should probably remove all instances of MIT-style from the xorg recipes as they should probably be MIT-X. Ross
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