On Mon, 2026-06-01 at 12:11 -0600, Joshua Watt via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> The file docs/reference/COPYING is an exact match for the text of the
> Gnome GCR Documentation License (SPDX ID GCR-docs), so use that license
> instead of Public Domain. This licenses actually requires that the
> copyright notice be preserved, unlike Public Domain, so its likely that
> using Public Domain is actually an error due to a misreading of the
> license text.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <[email protected]>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc 
> b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
> index 7fcfd2bf38..dee94ec060 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://developer.gnome.org/glib/";
>  
>  # pcre is under BSD;
>  # docs/reference/COPYING is with a 'public domain'-like license!

Hi Joshua,

We should update the comment here as well.

> -LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later & BSD-3-Clause & PD"
> +LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later & BSD-3-Clause & GCR-docs"
>  LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=41890f71f740302b785c27661123bff5 \
>                      
> file://glib/glib.h;beginline=4;endline=17;md5=72f7cc2847407f65d8981ef112e4e630
>  \
>                      
> file://LICENSES/LGPL-2.1-or-later.txt;md5=41890f71f740302b785c27661123bff5 \

Best regards,

-- 
Paul Barker

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