[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/cairo: improve license information

Rahul Bedarkar Rahul.Bedarkar at imgtec.com
Tue Mar 7 09:24:24 UTC 2017


Hi Romain,

On Tuesday 07 March 2017 02:32 AM, Romain Naour wrote:
> Cairo can be licenced under MPL and license copy are in COPYING-LGPL-2.1
> and COPYING-MPL-1.1.

As per COPYING file, this dual licensing only applies to library and 
other auxiliary components (tests, utils, etc) may be under different 
licenses.

>
> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
> ---
>  package/cairo/cairo.mk | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/package/cairo/cairo.mk b/package/cairo/cairo.mk
> index 761c6f4..137d348 100644
> --- a/package/cairo/cairo.mk
> +++ b/package/cairo/cairo.mk
> @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
>
>  CAIRO_VERSION = 1.14.8
>  CAIRO_SOURCE = cairo-$(CAIRO_VERSION).tar.xz
> -CAIRO_LICENSE = LGPLv2.1+
> -CAIRO_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
> +CAIRO_LICENSE = LGPLv2.1+ or MPL

License string for LGPL should be "LGPLv2.1" because license text 
doesn't have "or (at your option) any later version;" clause.

There are many versions of MPL license and COPYING file specifically 
mentions MPLv1.1

So, license string should be "LGPLv2.1 or MPLv1.1 (library)"

Thanks,
Rahul


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