[Buildroot] [PATCH 1 of 4] i2c-tools: add license information
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Tue Oct 8 20:32:53 UTC 2013
On 10/08/13 22:22, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
>> On 10/08/13 12:06, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.mk | 2 ++
>>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.mk b/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.mk
>>> --- a/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.mk
>>> +++ b/package/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.mk
>>> @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
>>> I2C_TOOLS_VERSION = 3.1.0
>>> I2C_TOOLS_SOURCE = i2c-tools-$(I2C_TOOLS_VERSION).tar.bz2
>>> I2C_TOOLS_SITE = http://dl.lm-sensors.org/i2c-tools/releases
>>> +I2C_TOOLS_LICENSE = GPLv2
>>
>> All files are GPLv2+ AFAICS. Only py-smbus/setup.py claims that the
>> package is GPLv2, but that's just wrong.
>
> Why is that wrong?
>
> I reasoned that if one of the components is gplv2, and the rest is gplv2+, then the whole needs to be gplv2.
setup.py itself isn't GPLv2, it just claims that the package is GPLv2.
But it isn't, since each file says it GPLv2+.
Scratch that: the python module is GPLv2 only. But I don't think we
build the python module anyway. Just to be safe, put:
I2C_TOOLS_LICENSE = GPLv2+, GPLv2 (py-smbus)
Regards,
Arnout
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