bzip2 and busybox: Incorrect LICENSE
authorElizabeth Flanagan <elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com>
Tue, 2 Oct 2012 23:01:42 +0000 (16:01 -0700)
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 3 Oct 2012 09:04:08 +0000 (10:04 +0100)
The license for bzip2 is not quite BSD. I have an email out to the
maintainer to see if we can utilize a common BSD license (or something
else) however, for now, we should revert bzip2 back to a special
license.

As busybox also utilizes a lightly modified bzip2, this also
effects busybox.

(From OE-Core rev: a0b132798d2c1adf79414787b8317327a554f852)

Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Flanagan <elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.6.bb

index 33e01a4..972e7d0 100644 (file)
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.busybox.net/"
 
 # bzip2 applet in busybox is based on lightly-modified bzip2 source
 # the GPL is version 2 only
-# bzip2 is not a bzip2 license (no such thing)
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & BSD-4-Clause"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2 & bzip2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=de10de48642ab74318e893a61105afbb"
 
 SECTION = "base"
index 5f92deb..d03b57d 100644 (file)
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved
 LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.bzip.org/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "BSD-4-Clause"
+LICENSE = "bzip2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;beginline=8;endline=37;md5=40d9d1eb05736d1bfc86cfdd9106e6b2"
 PR = "r5"