Bug 14539

Summary: Remove vague "BSD" license
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Component: coreAssignee: Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium+ CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, randy.macleod
Version: 4.0   
Target Milestone: 4.0 M3   
Hardware: All   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)

Description Ross Burton 2021-09-01 17:19:53 UTC 
In common-licenses we have a "BSD" license, which has the classic three-clause text. However as this name is vague it gets used when people mean anything from 0 to 4 clause BSD.  Also, SPDX doesn't have a "BSD" license, just BSD-2-Clause etc.

We should remove the "BSD" license from oe-core, and force people to say what variation they actually mean.
Comment 1 Ross Burton 2021-09-28 21:05:20 UTC 
Note that we've removed all users of BSD from oe-core.
Comment 2 Randy MacLeod 2022-01-06 15:57:27 UTC 
Ping!
Comment 3 Ross Burton 2022-02-04 12:50:58 UTC 
Patch on the list.
Comment 4 Ross Burton 2022-03-17 16:28:16 UTC 
Merged in oe-core 14d4c007c49652d836d325a12bdbcd3bfa42e6d5.