Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH v3 6/9] pciutils: fix license identifier

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

Hi,

Please always reply to the list.

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 05:34:21PM +0200, Christian Hermann wrote:
> On 4/12/19 8:50 AM, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 05:12:06PM +0200, Christian Hermann wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Christian Hermann <christian.hermann@hytera.de>
> > > ---
> > >   rules/pciutils.make | 2 +-
> > >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/rules/pciutils.make b/rules/pciutils.make
> > > index 6ef7e14f7..be930fc60 100644
> > > --- a/rules/pciutils.make
> > > +++ b/rules/pciutils.make
> > > @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ PCIUTILS_SUFFIX		:= tar.xz
> > >   PCIUTILS_URL		:= $(call ptx/mirror, KERNEL, ../software/utils/pciutils/$(PCIUTILS).$(PCIUTILS_SUFFIX))
> > >   PCIUTILS_SOURCE		:= $(SRCDIR)/$(PCIUTILS).$(PCIUTILS_SUFFIX)
> > >   PCIUTILS_DIR		:= $(BUILDDIR)/$(PCIUTILS)
> > > -PCIUTILS_LICENSE	:= GPL-2.0-only
> > > +PCIUTILS_LICENSE	:= GPL-2.0-or-later
> > 
> > Where do you get the 'or later' from. I can only find "Can be freely
> > distributed and used under the terms of the GNU GPL." in the code and a
> > GPL-2.0 license text.
> > 
> the README says this:
>   This package contains the PCI Utilities, version 3.3.0.
> 
>   Copyright (c) 1997--2014 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
> 
>   All files in this package can be freely distributed and used according
>   to the terms of the GNU General Public License, either version 2 or
>   (at your opinion) any newer version. See http://www.gnu.org/ for details
>   [...]

Right. The source files don't mention the 'or later'. So in this case, the
relevant part of the README must be added to the _LICENSE_FILES.

Michael

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