[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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