Thanks for the research. Yes, please do add this to commit and resend.

Alex

On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 02:07, wan...@fujitsu.com <wan...@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> As you can see the ChangeLog shown below, in version 1.5 the maintainer 
> mistakenly changed the copyright holder from Andrew Moore to the FSF. In 
> versions 1.6 and 1.11 he tried to fix the mistake, but he forgot to restore 
> the original COPYING, which he have done now in 1.18.
>
> Therefore, in addition to changing the LICENSE field from GPLv3 + to GPLv2 , 
> should I add relevant information in the commit?
>
> 2010-08-30  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <ant_d...@teleline.es>
>         * Version 1.5 released.
>         * Change copyright holder from Andrew, Antonio to the FSF.
>           (This change was later discovered to be wrong. See 1.6 and 1.11).
>
> 2012-01-01  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <ant_d...@teleline.es>
>
>         * Version 1.6 released.
>         * Restore copyright notices of Andrew L. Moore. It seems Andrew
>           granted some permissions but never assigned copyright to the FSF.
>
> 2015-03-30  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <anto...@gnu.org>
>
>         * Version 1.11 released.
>         * Restore original copyright and license notices in the code. I
>           assigned to the FSF the copyright on changes made to the part of ed
>           already copyrighted by the FSF, which seems to be just the manual.
>
> 2022-02-04  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <anto...@gnu.org>
>         * Version 1.18 released.
>         * COPYING: Restored. (I forgot to do it in 1.11).
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kana...@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 6:25 PM
> > To: Wang, Mingyu/王 鸣瑜 <wan...@fujitsu.com>
> > Cc: OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
> > Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] ed: upgrade 1.17 -> 1.18
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 09:26, wangmy <wan...@fujitsu.com> wrote:
> >
> > > License-Update:
> > > year updated to 2022.
> > > license changed from GNU3 to GNU2.
> > >  LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
> > > -LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
> > "file://COPYING;md5=0c7051aef9219dc7237f206c5c4179a7 \
> > > -
> > file://ed.h;endline=20;md5=b72aa5eaafef318c6bfc37f858469113 \
> > > -
> > file://main.c;endline=17;md5=2c93e24f4db3528a00a24c7df5618e41 \
> > > +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
> > "file://COPYING;md5=76d6e300ffd8fb9d18bd9b136a9bba13 \
> > > +
> > file://ed.h;endline=20;md5=6e6a818b0593f937fc63ba08d5e314bf \
> > > +
> > > +file://main.c;endline=17;md5=8419a08bb12936f32384a0d1c0f9e74c \
> >
> >
> > If the license changed, you need to update the LICENSE field. Also a bit
> > more research would be appreciated: can you find and link the commit
> > where the change occurred?
> >
> > Alex
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