Hi all, "recently", the PKG_LICENSE field was introduced in commit https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/33861
I really like the approach to add such license information to each package, so that generating license clearing reports is easy. The original commit author does not mention any rules about this new field, or at least I did not found anything in commit history and wiki. So adding this field to other/new packages involves looking at existing packages and then copy&paste, or entering this information manually, which could result in different spellings of the same license. I recommend that we agree to use a defined standard, e.g. use the existing "license identifiers" of the SPDX project: http://spdx.org/licenses/ When a package is covered by more than one license, we should list them separated by a whitespace character, as is already common practise. Here is the output of a grep -r 'PKG_LICENSE:=' package/libs/gettext/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=FREE package/libs/ncurses/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=FREE package/libs/zlib/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=ZLIB package/libs/librpc/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 LGPLv2.1 package/libs/ustream-ssl/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=ISC package/libs/uclient/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=ISC package/libs/libtool/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 package/libs/libbsd/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=BSD-4c package/libs/libubox/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=ISC BSD-3c package/libs/sysfsutils/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 LGPLv2.1 package/libs/libreadline/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv3 package/libs/ocf-crypto-headers/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 package/libs/libnl-tiny/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 LGPLv2.1 package/libs/openssl/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=SSLEAY OPENSSL package/libs/libiconv/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=FREE package/libs/libjson-c/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=MIT package/utils/usbmode/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 package/utils/util-linux/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 LGPLv2.1 BSD-3c package/utils/lua/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=MIT package/utils/ubi-utils/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 package/utils/fuse/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=LGPLv2.1 GPLv2 package/utils/busybox/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 BSD-4c package/network/services/ipset-dns/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 package/network/services/dnsmasq/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 package/network/services/dropbear/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=MIT package/network/services/samba36/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv3 package/network/utils/uqmi/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 package/network/config/netifd/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 package/kernel/linux/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 package/system/rpcd/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=ISC package/system/mtd/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 GPLv2+ package/system/ubox/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 package/system/uci/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=LGPLv2.1 GPLv2 package/system/ubus/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=LGPLv2.1 package/system/procd/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 package/system/opkg/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 package/system/fstools/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 package/boot/kobs-ng/Makefile:PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2 I would also suggest to make this field mandatory for all new packages added to the new "rebooted" package feed. What do you think about? Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
