On Tue Jun 30, 2026 at 9:34 AM CEST, Yoann Congal wrote:
> 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.

master fix: 
https://lore.kernel.org/openembedded-core/[email protected]/T/#u

>
> Thanks!
>
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>


-- 
Yoann Congal
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