[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] mxml: add license information

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Thu Aug 2 03:54:47 UTC 2012


Hi Luca, Thomas,

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 10:24:45PM +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> >Le Wed,  1 Aug 2012 07:48:58 +0300,
> >Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> a écrit :
> >
> >>+MXML_LICENSE = LGPLv2+
> >>+MXML_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
> >
> >I haven't applied this one, because the situation is a bit more
> >complicated here. mxml is released under LGPLv2+ + some special
> >exceptions. See the COPYING file:

[snip]

> >I am not sure how to encode this into the _LICENSE field. Luca?
> 
> Well, the fallback for fancy licenses is "<package_name> license", as in
> "bzip2 license", for example.
> 
> But in cases like this, where the license is very similar to a well-known
> one, I would prefer something like "LGPLv2+ with exceptions".That is much
> more informative, while still clearly stating this not equal to an LGPLv2+.

Ok. I'll resubmit the patch.

baruch

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