[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/ytree: fix license

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sun Dec 8 07:51:39 UTC 2019


>>>>> "Fabrice" == Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com> writes:

 > License is GPL-2.0+ not GPL-2.0 as specified in files that contain
 > license information: tilde.{h,c} and xmalloc.{h,c}

ytree is messy. I have been in contact with the upstream developer to
clarify this, and he ended up releasing a 2.0 tarball with no code
changes, just the clarification that it is released under GPL-2.0+. That
tarball unfortunately had some issues (including having a GPL-3.0 COPYING
file rather than 2.0), which I pointed out but never heard back.

I have just redownloaded the 2.0 tarball, and I see the COPYING file has
been silently changed to 2.0, so perhaps a nicer solution would be to
combine this license change with the bump to 2.0?


 > Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com>
 > ---
 >  package/ytree/ytree.mk | 2 +-
 >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

 > diff --git a/package/ytree/ytree.mk b/package/ytree/ytree.mk
 > index d9716f93ba..379be1e8e0 100644
 > --- a/package/ytree/ytree.mk
 > +++ b/package/ytree/ytree.mk
 > @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 >  YTREE_VERSION = 1.99pl2
 >  YTREE_SITE = https://www.han.de/~werner
 > -YTREE_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
 > +YTREE_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 >  YTREE_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 >  YTREE_DEPENDENCIES = ncurses
 
 > -- 
 > 2.24.0

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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