Thanks for replying on this. FYI, I have already open a bug for this: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4014
Regards, Gaurang Shastri On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Saul Wold <s...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > On 03/11/2013 10:17 AM, Khem Raj wrote: > >> >> On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:45 AM, Gaurang Shastri <gmshas...@gmail.com >> <mailto:gmshas...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >>> >>> Any shades of light for below query ??? >>> >>> >> I would suggest to open a bug for it. >> >> Timing is on this one! > > I noticed this recently independent of this email! > > I have contacted the maintainer of util-linux to clarify the license of > mbsalign.c as it's used directly by cal and lslocks and included in the > common library. > > As it also turns out the original reason that util-linux was marked as > GPLv3 because of lscpu, which is now be changed back to GPLv2. > > I will keep people posted on this one. > > We try to do our best to keep the license information up to date and > sometimes files under core licenses slip by. As upstreams projects start to > use SPDX this kind of problem can be avoided. > > Thanks for pointing it out. > > Sau! > > > > > //Gaurang Shastri >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Gaurang Shastri <gmshas...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:gmshas...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I have some concerns regarding util-linux-2.21.2 version . As per >>> Yocto-1.3 (danny) recipe, >>> {{{ >>> >>> LICENSE_${PN}-lscpu = "GPLv3+" <-- util-linux_2.21.2.bb >>> <http://util-linux_2.21.2.bb/> >>> >>> >>> LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+ & BSD" <-- util-linux.inc >>> >>> }}} >>> >>> So as per the above description, only lscpu is GPLv3. >>> >>> But while looking into the source of util-linux-2.21.2, I found >>> out that "util-linux-2.21.2/lib/**mbsalign.c" is GPLv3 and it is >>> used by following binaries while building: >>> {{{ >>> - fdisk >>> - partx >>> }}} >>> >>> So does it mean that the above binaries should also be GPLv3 and >>> need to take care in util-linux.{bb,inc} ??? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Gaurang Shastri >>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> yocto mailing list >>> yocto@yoctoproject.org <mailto:yocto@yoctoproject.org**> >>> https://lists.yoctoproject.**org/listinfo/yocto<https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto> >>> >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> yocto mailing list >> yocto@yoctoproject.org >> https://lists.yoctoproject.**org/listinfo/yocto<https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto> >> >>
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