Le mar. 30 juin 2026 à 08:42, Richard Purdie <
[email protected]> a écrit :

> On Tue, 2026-06-30 at 00:44 +0200, Yoann Congal wrote:
> > On Tue Jun 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM CEST, Richard Purdie via
> lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> > > The "public-domain" code has a MIT license header so we can remove
> > > that from LICENSE (MIT is already listed).
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > >  meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear_2025.89.bb | 3 ++-
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear_2025.89.bb
> b/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear_2025.89.bb
> > > index 957a0901fb0..ece065265ff 100644
> > > --- a/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear_2025.89.bb
> > > +++ b/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear_2025.89.bb
> > > @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ SECTION = "console/network"
> > >
> > >  # some files are from other projects and have others license terms:
> > >  #   public domain, OpenSSH 3.5p1, OpenSSH3.6.1p2, PuTTY
> > > -LICENSE = "MIT & BSD-3-Clause & BSD-2-Clause & PD"
> > > +# The 'public-domain' file is headered as MIT
> > > +LICENSE = "MIT & BSD-3-Clause & BSD-2-Clause"
> > >  LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
> "file://LICENSE;md5=25cf44512b7bc8966a48b6b1a9b7605f"
> >
> > While reviewing backporting this patch for scarthgap, I've look at the
> > licences of dropbear:
> > The "'public-domain' file headered as MIT" is (I think):
> > https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/DROPBEAR_2026.91/src/curve25519.c
> > (indeed MIT header)
> >
> > But:
> > * vendored libtommcrypt is "PD OR WTFPL"
> >
> https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/DROPBEAR_2026.91/libtomcrypt/LICENSE
> > * vendored libtommath is "Unlicense"
> >
> https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/DROPBEAR_2026.91/libtommath/LICENSE
> > ... is that OK that those don't appear in LICENSE?
> >
> > If yes, then the argument is still valid for scarthgap and I'll will
> > backport.
>
> Well spotted, I think you're right that I didn't get this quite right.
> It should be:
>
> "MIT & BSD-3-Clause & BSD-2-Clause & (PD | WTFPL) & Unlicense"
>
> assuming those libs are always used in the build.
>
> We should probably just make it:
>
> "MIT & BSD-3-Clause & BSD-2-Clause & WTFPL & Unlicense"
>
> since PD just causes us pain and WTFPL is effectively the alternative.
>

Ok, I'll drop that for scarthgap for now, send a fix for master and then,
look backporting this.

Thanks!


>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>

-- 
Yoann Congal
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