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Change bzip2 to a less generic license

PATCH In review Elizabeth Flanagan 3 participants 4 messages Oct 2, 2012 – Oct 3, 2012

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cover Change bzip2 to a less generic license

The license for bzip2 is not quite BSD. I have an email out to the maintainer to see if we can utilize a common BSD license (or something else) however, for now, we should revert bzip2 back to a special license.

As busybox also utilizes a lightly modified bzip2, this also effects busybox.

The following changes since commit 8609051d8d4f9fa565eb48418a87fa0048613374:

bitbake.conf: Add CCACHE_DISABLE to BS_HASHBASE_WHITELIST (2012-10-02 18:12:48 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:
git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib eflanagan/bzip
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=eflanagan/bzip

Elizabeth Flanagan (1):
bzip2 and busybox: Incorrect LICENSE

 meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc      |    3 +--
 meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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PATCH 1/1 bzip2 and busybox: Incorrect LICENSE

The license for bzip2 is not quite BSD. I have an email out to the maintainer to see if we can utilize a common BSD license (or something else) however, for now, we should revert bzip2 back to a special license.

As busybox also utilizes a lightly modified bzip2, this also effects busybox.

---
 meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc      |    3 +--
 meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc +1 -2
index 33e01a4..972e7d0 100644
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.busybox.net/"
 
 # bzip2 applet in busybox is based on lightly-modified bzip2 source
 # the GPL is version 2 only
-# bzip2 is not a bzip2 license (no such thing)
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & BSD-4-Clause"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2 & bzip2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=de10de48642ab74318e893a61105afbb"
 
 SECTION = "base"
meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb +1 -1
index 5f92deb..d03b57d 100644
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved
 LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.bzip.org/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "BSD-4-Clause"
+LICENSE = "bzip2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;beginline=8;endline=37;md5=40d9d1eb05736d1bfc86cfdd9106e6b2"
 PR = "r5"
 
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Re: [PATCH 1/1] bzip2 and busybox: Incorrect LICENSE

Hello,

Quoted 9 lines · Elizabeth Flanagan

The license for bzip2 is not quite BSD. I have an email out to the maintainer to see if we can utilize a common BSD license (or something else) however, for now, we should revert bzip2 back to a special license.

As busybox also utilizes a lightly modified bzip2, this also effects busybox.

Please send it for denzil-next as well.

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Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
E-mail: [email protected]  http://www.ossystems.com.br
Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854              http://projetos.ossystems.com.br
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Re: [PATCH 1/1] bzip2 and busybox: Incorrect LICENSE

Quoted 9 lines · Otavio Salvador

Hello,

Quoted 5 lines · Elizabeth Flanagan

The license for bzip2 is not quite BSD. I have an email out to the maintainer to see if we can utilize a common BSD license (or something else) however, for now, we should revert bzip2 back to a special license.

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As busybox also utilizes a lightly modified bzip2, this also effects busybox.

Please send it for denzil-next as well.

Maybe with PR bumps as license is part of packaged metadata.

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Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
E-mail: [email protected]  http://www.ossystems.com.br
Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854              http://projetos.ossystems.com.br

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