[Buildroot] [PATCH] elfutils: clarify licensing info

Gustavo Zacarias gustavo.zacarias at free-electrons.com
Tue Oct 4 23:06:44 UTC 2016


On 04/10/16 10:01, Rahul Bedarkar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> License string should be GPLv2+ instead of GPLv2 because license header
> uses clause "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
> later version". With that license string for library is "GPLv2+ or LGPLv3+"

Right, fixed for v2.

> There is same if condition down. Instead we should conditionally add
> license there.

Missed that optimization, fixed.

>> +ELFUTILS_LICENSE += GPLv3+ (programs)
>
> Since it is separate component, it should be comma separated.
>
> ELFUTILS_LICENSE := $(ELFUTILS_LICENSE), GPLv3+ (programs)

Most packages don't do this correctly, only a few do and i've used those 
as example, though it's no excuse. Care to fix the others?
Regards.


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