[Buildroot] [PATCH 6/8] fontconfig: add license info

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Wed Aug 22 06:46:32 UTC 2012


Hi Danomi,

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 08:39:26PM -0400, Danomi Manchego wrote:
> > For special licenses, I thought that the convention was to use the
> > string "foo license", and not just "foo".
> 
> Grepping, I see only three exceptions to this:
> 
> package/zxing/zxing.mk:ZXING_LICENSE = Apache
> package/poco/poco.mk:POCO_LICENSE = Boost-v1.0

Apache and Boost refer (also) to specific software licenses. See 
http://www.apache.org/licenses/ and http://www.boost.org/users/license.html. I 
think we should add a version number to Apache license info, though. In the 
case of zxing it's v2.0.

baruch

> package/openssl/openssl.mk:OPENSSL_LICENSE = OpenSSL or SSLeay
> 
> So, I'll resubmit as "fontconfig license".
> 
> What about sqlite?  According to http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html, it
> is "public domain".  Should sqlite's license also be "sqlite license", or
> "public domain"?
> 
> Danomi -
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Thomas Petazzoni <
> thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 
> > Le Sun, 19 Aug 2012 16:18:28 -0400,
> > Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123 at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > > +FONTCONFIG_LICENSE = fontconfig
> > > +FONTCONFIG_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
> >
> > For special licenses, I thought that the convention was to use the
> > string "foo license", and not just "foo". Luca?
> >
> > Thomas
> > --
> > Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
> > Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
> > development, consulting, training and support.
> > http://free-electrons.com

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