On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 8:33 AM Marta Rybczynska via lists.openembedded.org <rybczynska=gmail....@lists.openembedded.org> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 6 May 2024, 13:09 nikhil via lists.openembedded.org, > <nikhilar2410=gmail....@lists.openembedded.org> wrote: >> >> Update LICENSE defined for xz packages to match the license >> information provided in the xz COPYING file. >> >> The License information from PACKAGERS file of xz mentions >> packages with lzma files are in public domain.They ask to >> use GPLv2+, if only it's not possible to mention "PD and GPLv2+". >> >> Include PD license with GPLv2 to packages with lzma content: >> xz-dev package contains lzma header >> xz-doc package contains lzma man pages >> xz packages contains lzma binaries >> >> Links: https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/blob/v5.2.6/COPYING >> https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/blob/v5.4.1/PACKAGERS >> >> Signed-off-by: Bhabu Bindu <bindudaniel1...@gmail.com> >> --- >> meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.6.bb | 6 +++--- >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.6.bb >> b/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.6.bb >> index 3482622471..33496748bc 100644 >> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.6.bb >> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.6.bb >> @@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ SECTION = "base" >> # libgnu, which appears to be used for DOS builds. So we're left with >> # GPL-2.0-or-later and PD. >> LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later & GPL-3.0-with-autoconf-exception & >> LGPL-2.1-or-later & PD" >> -LICENSE:${PN} = "GPL-2.0-or-later" >> -LICENSE:${PN}-dev = "GPL-2.0-or-later" >> +LICENSE:${PN} = "PD & GPL-2.0-or-later" >> +LICENSE:${PN}-dev = "PD & GPL-2.0-or-later" >> LICENSE:${PN}-staticdev = "GPL-2.0-or-later" >> -LICENSE:${PN}-doc = "GPL-2.0-or-later" >> +LICENSE:${PN}-doc = "PD & GPL-2.0-or-later" >> LICENSE:${PN}-dbg = "GPL-2.0-or-later" >> LICENSE:${PN}-locale = "GPL-2.0-or-later" >> LICENSE:liblzma = "PD" >> -- >> 2.25.1 > > > I'm not a copyright lawyer, but from what I understand public domain is not a > licence. For a discussion see > https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Decisions/Dealing_with_Public_Domain_within_SPDX_Files >
rather each PD is a license of its own is what I understand. > The next version of xz will be 0BSD so the statement will change too. > > Regards, > Marta > > > >
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