> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Phil Blundell > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 7:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [oe] Question about automake licensing in recipe > > On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 21:38 +0930, Graham Gower wrote: > > Basically, automake have to contact all their contributors to allow > > their GPLv2 code to be distributed under GPLv3. Or they have to pull > > the GPLv3 code out. > > If automake has followed the usual GNU conventions then all the > contributors will have assigned copyright of their code to the FSF > anyway. In that case, the FSF can (being the copyright holder) > unilaterally decide what licence it should be distributed under.
As a follow up I'm beginning to wonder if the COPYING file in the lib directory wasn't auto-generated by automake itself. Newer versions of automake will apply the "gnu" strictness by default and will create a COPYING file for GPLv3. Either way, I have submitted an e-mail to the automake list asking for them to clarify their licensing. > > If they haven't done that then, yeah, they would probably need the > permission of the original authors to change the licensing. > > p. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
