[OE-core] [PATCH] harfbuzz: update the license information
Maxin B. John
maxin.john at enea.com
Tue Mar 19 08:00:15 UTC 2013
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:25:05AM -0700, Flanagan, Elizabeth wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:24 AM, <maxin.john at enea.com> wrote:
> > From: "Maxin B. John" <maxin.john at enea.com>
> >
> > harfbuzz is using the 'Modern Variants' of MIT License:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT?rd=Licensing/MIT#Modern_Variants
> >
> > So, we can update the LICENSE as 'MIT'.
> Yes, it's a variant of MIT but...
>·
> cat hb-icu-le/COPYING
>·
> "The contents of this directory are licensed under the ICU license.
> See file license.html."
>·
> So, this should be:
>·
> LICENSE = "MIT & ICU"
You are right. I will make the modification as per your suggestion.
> even though ICU is in itself an MIT variant, it should still be called
> out as we have the ICU generic listed in files/common-licenses.
>·
> > LIC_FILES_CHKSUM ="file://COPYING;md5=e021dd6dda6ff1e6b1044002fc662b9b \
> > file://src/hb-ucdn/COPYING;md5=994ba0f1295f15b4bda4999a5bbeddef \
> > file://src/hb-icu-le/COPYING;md5=0ac60acf068e2cc9facdf86169a9c13e \
>·
> This is correct. There are a lot of headers with licenses but at a
> glance they all appear to read as MIT.
>·
> > --
Thank you very much for the comments.
Warm Regards,
Maxin
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