[OE-core] [PATCH] license.bbclass base.bbclass: support for 'or' operand in LICENSE and for SPDX license names

[Flanagan, Elizabeth]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Andrei Gherzan <andrei at gherzan.ro> wrote:
>> No worries. Anyway, you are right about the "+" mechanism but right now this
>> is a fast and complete solution.
>
> Indeed, nice work on this.

Agreed! One note about "+". There is still a discussion about "or
greater" licensing within the SPDX community about how "or greater"
should be dealt with.

http://www.spdx.org/wiki/proposal-2010-11-16-1-or-later-version-licensing
https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591

I'm partial to, as a stop gap, re-including L/GPL-x.0+ license files
into common-licenses until they hash it out and treating "+" as just
part of the license name. It's not a perfect solution but it should
solve most "or greater" use cases.

-b

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Elizabeth Flanagan
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