[poky] License | "or" problem?

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Fri Dec 16 10:00:22 PST 2011


On Friday 16 December 2011 09:39:51 Saul Wold wrote:
> On 12/16/2011 02:35 AM, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> > As i know qt4 has double license. This means that everybody can choose
> > from GPLv3 and LGPLv2.1. This fact is reflected in bb file as:
> > 
> > LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 | GPLv3"
>
> Also, looking at the current LICENSE in qt, it will need to be further
> defined on a package level as to how each package is licensed, so that
> when the manifest and audit occurs only the LGPLv2.1 bits are included.

Where do you get the idea that there is a mix of licenses for Qt4? As far as I 
am aware, the user is supposed to select either LGPLv2.1 or GPLv3, which is 
exactly what the current value of LICENSE above means.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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