[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/6] python-mwscrape: use documented license abbreviation
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Wed Mar 22 22:32:12 UTC 2017
Thomas, All,
On 2017-03-22 21:39 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:18:53 +0530, Rahul Bedarkar wrote:
>
> > PYTHON_MWSCRAPE_VERSION = 6a58d7801eb1e884fd0516f1adbedbd4481c10e6
> > PYTHON_MWSCRAPE_SITE = $(call github,itkach,mwscrape,$(PYTHON_MWSCRAPE_VERSION))
> > -PYTHON_MWSCRAPE_LICENSE = MPL-2.0
> > +PYTHON_MWSCRAPE_LICENSE = MPLv2.0
>
> Well, our idea was to use the SPDX license codes as much as possible,
> and MPL-2.0 is the correct SPDX license code for this license. However,
> it is true we haven't used SPDX from the beginning, so we're using
> GPLv2 everywhere, while SPDX uses GPL-2.0.
>
> See:
>
> https://spdx.org/licenses/
>
> I think our idea was to keep using GPLv2/LGPLv2.1/GPLv3, but for all
> other licenses, use the SPDX code as much as possible.
>
> Maybe we should bite the bullet, and migrate all packages to use SPDX
> license codes?
That would have my approval, yes.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
> Arnout, Yann, Peter?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
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