| Summary: |
elfutils: wrong license |
| Product: |
[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core
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Reporter: |
Nick Owens <nick.owens> |
| Component: |
devtools / tool chain | Assignee: |
William Lyu <william.lyu> |
| Status: |
RESOLVED
FIXED
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QA Contact: |
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| Severity: |
normal
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| Priority: |
Medium
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CC: |
meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, randy.macleod
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| Version: |
unspecified | |
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| Target Milestone: |
5.0 | |
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| Hardware: |
x86 | |
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| OS: |
Multiple | |
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| Whiteboard: |
NIR 10/20, NIR 10/27, NIR 11/03 |
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OS type for building Yocto:
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Verified:
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Documentation change:
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No (bug/feature does not impact docs)
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elfutils is currently marked as LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & GPL-2.0-or-later & LGPL-3.0-or-later & GPL-3.0-or-later" which i believe to be incorrect. upstream https://sourceware.org/elfutils/ says: License. The libraries and backends are dual GPLv2+/LGPLv3+. The utilities are GPLv3+. which i believe can be interpreted as giving the user a choice of license, and the source code (e.g. https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git;a=blob;f=libelf/common.h;h=9b2a856d118a55c0977bbc8d9978d8f6b42f18b3;hb=HEAD#l6) says the same. gentoo also agrees with me, and their ebuild uses `||` which implies user choice of license: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-libs/elfutils/elfutils-0.189-r3.ebuild?id=0c64ab06a4ba2c73f3840be7aa49e34f42c13696#n14 LICENSE="|| ( GPL-2+ LGPL-3+ ) utils? ( GPL-3+ )" i would like to see the yocto metadata updated to match the upstream license.