Bug 8090

Summary: nano's license is set to GPLv2
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Frederik Sdun <frederik_sdun>
Component: coreAssignee: Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Undecided CC: bluelightning, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Multiple   
URL: http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/nano/COPYING?revision=4147&root=nano&view=markup
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: New (Never tested)
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Frederik Sdun 2015-08-03 10:53:50 UTC
nano changed to GPLv3 7 years ago (see commit in URL), but meta-oe still uses GPLv2 as LICENSE.
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM was updated, but LICENSE field wasn't adjusted.
Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2015-08-06 14:50:38 UTC
The nano recipe is in meta-oe as you've noted, and I'm afraid the Yocto Project doesn't generally maintain recipes in that layer. In general issues with meta-oe  should be reported to the openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org mailing list so that someone there can look into it.

This does look like something that should be corrected fairly swiftly though.