[poky] License | "or" problem?

Foinel flocirel at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 01:09:48 PST 2011


So if it's like Paul says, this seems to be a bug.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 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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