Am Freitag, den 29.07.2011, 13:38 -0700 schrieb Flanagan, Elizabeth: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: > > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:47:22 +0200 > > > > This license is listed online for example at the Web site of XFree86 [1], > > Debian [2]. No name of the license is mentioned there. Gentoo just uses > > »MIT« [3]. > > > > There are some packages in OpenEmbedded using `MIT-X` and I guess they > > refer to the same license. I prefer »X/MIT« derived from the chapter name > > of [1] »MIT/X Licenses«. > > The LICENSE field generally has a few requirements to work correctly > for license.bbclass. One, it should be python-esque to parse > correctly. Two, it should use one of two standards. If you look in > meta/files/common-licenses you'll see a list of license text from > SPDX. If you look in license.bbclass, you'll also see a bunch of > mappings for backwards compatability: > > SPDXLICENSEMAP[MIT-X] = "MIT" > > LICENSE should use either the file name in common-licenses, or, the > mapping. In this case, we have the mapping for LICENSE, so MIT-X is > perfectly valid.
Thank you for the detailed explanation. > > [1] http://www.xfree86.org/current/LICENSE5.html > > [2] > > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/x11-xserver-utils/x11-xserver-utils_7.6+3/x11-xserver-utils.copyright > > [3] http://gpo.zugaina.org/x11-apps/iceauth/euscan > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <[email protected]> > > --- > > I do not know anything about license names and just checked the WWW. It > > would be great if the OE crowd could decide on one name and use it > > consistently. > > Agreed. As replied to Andreas, oe-core also seems to use that inconsistently – just from a style point of course. It would be great to get your opinion on the other issue like licenses in include files too. […] Thanks, Paul
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