[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/lxc: fix license

Fabrice Fontaine fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 19:38:48 UTC 2020


Hi Thomas,

Le mer. 15 juil. 2020 à 21:30, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> a écrit :
>
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:04:38 +0200
> Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Commit 5a393677314dfdaa6a4bd6a847b642ae54517538 forgot to update
> > license which has been changed from COPYING to LICENSE.GPL2 and
> > LICENSE.LGPL2.1 since version 4.0.0 and
> > https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/cc73685dd09315b292968ee91a08a8f295376b35
> >
> > It should be noted that COPYING describes GPLv3 for an unknown reason
>
> Has this been reported upstream ?
I created an issue here: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/3484.
>
> >  LXC_VERSION = 4.0.3
> >  LXC_SITE = https://linuxcontainers.org/downloads/lxc
> > -LXC_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+
> > -LXC_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
> > +LXC_LICENSE = GPL-2.0, LGPL-2.1+
>
> Do we have some details about what is under GPL, what is under LGPL ?
Yes, each file has a SPDX header since
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/cc73685dd09315b292968ee91a08a8f295376b35.
Most of them are LGPL but some source files under tools directory are
GPL-2.0-only.
>
> Is it GPL-2.0, or GPL-2.0+ ?
It is GPL-2.0.
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> https://bootlin.com
Best Regards,

Fabrice



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