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

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Jul 15 19:30:55 UTC 2020


On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:04:38 +0200
Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Commit 5a393677314dfdaa6a4bd6a847b642ae54517538 forgot to update
> license which has been changed from COPYING to LICENSE.GPL2 and
> LICENSE.LGPL2.1 since version 4.0.0 and
> https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/cc73685dd09315b292968ee91a08a8f295376b35
> 
> It should be noted that COPYING describes GPLv3 for an unknown reason

Has this been reported upstream ?

>  LXC_VERSION = 4.0.3
>  LXC_SITE = https://linuxcontainers.org/downloads/lxc
> -LXC_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+
> -LXC_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
> +LXC_LICENSE = GPL-2.0, LGPL-2.1+

Do we have some details about what is under GPL, what is under LGPL ?

Is it GPL-2.0, or GPL-2.0+ ?

Thomas
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