[Buildroot] [PATCH/next 1/2] package/dovecot: bump version to 2.2.33.2

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Fri Nov 24 05:06:19 UTC 2017


Hi Thomas,

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 10:00:55PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:22:03 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> 
> > >  DOVECOT_VERSION_MAJOR = 2.2
> > > -DOVECOT_VERSION = $(DOVECOT_VERSION_MAJOR).31
> > > +DOVECOT_VERSION = $(DOVECOT_VERSION_MAJOR).33.2
> > >  DOVECOT_SITE = http://www.dovecot.org/releases/$(DOVECOT_VERSION_MAJOR)
> > >  DOVECOT_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
> > >  DOVECOT_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1  
> > 
> > Unrelated to this patch, but since COPYING.MIT is one of the license files, 
> > why isn't the MIT license mentioned here?
> 
> Good catch. The COPYING file explains pretty well was going on here. It
> says:
> 
> """
> Everything in src/lib/, src/auth/, src/lib-sql/ and src/lib-ntlm/ is under
> MIT license (see COPYING.MIT) unless otherwise mentioned at the beginning
> of the file.
> 
> Everything else is LGPLv2.1 (see COPYING.LGPL) unless otherwise mentioned
> at the beginning of the file.
> 
> Current exceptions are:
> 
> src/lib/md5.c : Public Domain
> 
> src/lib/sha1.c and sha2.c:
> [... here the next of BSD-3c]
> 
> src/lib/UnicodeData.txt:
> [... something that looks very similar to
> https://spdx.org/licenses/Unicode-DFS-2015.html, but isn't exactly the
> same ...]
> 
> So perhaps:
> 
> DOVECOT_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1, MIT, Public Domain, Unicode-DFS-2015
> 
> something like that ?

I added also BSD-3-Clause that COPYING mentioned.

It turns out that SPDX lists[1] 5 variants of BSD-3c. The BSD-3-Clause 
identifier refers to '"New" or "Revised" License', which is not exactly the 
same as the text in COPYING. But I think this is good enough for our purpose.

[1] https://spdx.org/licenses/

baruch

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