[Buildroot] [PATCH 03/11] package/dropwatch: license is GPL-2.0+

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Wed Nov 13 16:19:22 UTC 2019


Hi Peter,

On Wed, Nov 13 2019, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

> Dropwatch links with readline, which is GPL-3.0+, so not compatible with
> GPL-2.0.  When asked about this, upstream has clarified that the license
> really is GPL-2.0+:
>
> https://github.com/nhorman/dropwatch/issues/14
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
> ---
>  package/dropwatch/dropwatch.mk | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/package/dropwatch/dropwatch.mk b/package/dropwatch/dropwatch.mk
> index 1af61458e0..53d3683c5a 100644
> --- a/package/dropwatch/dropwatch.mk
> +++ b/package/dropwatch/dropwatch.mk
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
>  DROPWATCH_VERSION = 1.5.1
>  DROPWATCH_SITE = $(call github,nhorman,dropwatch,v$(DROPWATCH_VERSION))
>  DROPWATCH_DEPENDENCIES = libnl readline host-pkgconf $(TARGET_NLS_DEPENDENCIES)
> -DROPWATCH_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
> +DROPWATCH_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+

Maybe add a link to upstream license clarification in a comment?

baruch

>  DROPWATCH_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
>  # From git
>  DROPWATCH_AUTORECONF = YES


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