[Buildroot] [PATCH] socketcand: add license information

[Gilles Talis]

Dear Thomas Petazzoni,

No, I am not sure. And I agree with you, the license information for this
package is scarce and confusing. Arch-linux distribution tagged it as GPLv2
[1], and the package maintainer did not seem to disagree. This is why I
went with GPLv2. Would you prefer we did not add license information at all?

Thanks
Gilles

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/socketcand-git/


2013/5/9 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

> Dear Gilles Talis,
>
> On Thu,  9 May 2013 10:30:27 -0700, Gilles Talis wrote:
>
> > +SOCKETCAND_LICENSE = GPLv2
>
> Are you sure? The only licensing information I can find is in
> socketcand.c, and it says:
>
>  * Authors:
>  * Andre Naujoks (the socket server stuff)
>  * Oliver Hartkopp (the rest)
>  * Jan-Niklas Meier (extensions for use with kayak)
>  *
>  * Copyright (c) 2002-2009 Volkswagen Group Electronic Research
>  * All rights reserved.
>  *
>  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
>  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
>  * are met:
>  * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
>  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
>  * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
>  *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
>  * 3. Neither the name of Volkswagen nor the names of its contributors
>  *    may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
>  *    without specific prior written permission.
>  *
>  * Alternatively, provided that this notice is retained in full, this
>  * software may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
>  * Public License ("GPL") version 2, in which case the provisions of the
>  * GPL apply INSTEAD OF those given above.
>  *
>  * The provided data structures and external interfaces from this code
>  * are not restricted to be used by modules with a GPL compatible license.
>
> So the license is either GPLv2 or BSD-3c.
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
> Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
> development, consulting, training and support.
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>
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