On Wed, 15 Sept 2021 at 23:26, Peter Kjellerstedt
<peter.kjellerst...@axis.com> wrote:
> > > -LICENSE = "BSD & GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+ & MIT"
> > > +LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+ & ISC & Expat & BSD-2-Clause &
> > > BSD-3-Clause & IJG"
> >
> > There is no "Expat" license in neither meta/files/common-licenses nor
> > in meta/conf/licenses.conf.
>
> Ross, since you added the reference to the Expat license, did you plan on
> actually adding it as well? It being missing breaks at least our license
> handling. After writing this, I went digging in ffmpeg, and it seems that the
> Expat license (only mentioned by name, there is no actual license text) is
> only used for a test image (reference.pnm), which does not end up in any
> package. So to me it seems as this does not need to be included in LICENSE.
Whoops, sorry. Not sure how I didn't notice this. It should be MIT.
The other license issues are "interesting", yes. I think the recipe
needs an overhaul...
Ross
>
> Also, given the long list of licenses that are now in LICENSE, what packages
> are actually expected to use those licenses? AFAICT, all packages that are
> explicitly listed in the recipe either use GPLv2+ or LGPLv2.1+. The default
> licenses only seem to be used for, e.g., ffmpeg-dev, ffmpeg-dbg and
> ffmpeg-doc, which seems weird.
>
> More weirdness, LIC_FILES_CHKSUM lists GPLv2, GPLv3, LGPLv2 and LGPLv3, but
> neither GPLv3 nor LGPLv3 are used in LICENSE. And there are no references for
> any of the newly added licenses.
>
> > > LICENSE:${PN} = "GPLv2+"
> > > LICENSE:libavcodec = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'gpl',
> > > 'GPLv2+', 'LGPLv2.1+', d)}"
> > > LICENSE:libavdevice = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'gpl',
> > > 'GPLv2+', 'LGPLv2.1+', d)}"
> > > --
> > > 2.25.1
> >
> > //Peter
>
> //Peter
>
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