Hi Michael, 2014-06-03 14:50 GMT-07:00 Michael Heimpold <m...@heimpold.de>: > 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? This looks good to me, could you submit the patch doing this cleanup? -- Florian _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
