Bug 14539 - Remove vague "BSD" license
Summary: Remove vague "BSD" license
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All Multiple
: Medium+ enhancement
Target Milestone: 4.0 M3
Assignee: Ross Burton
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Reported: 2021-09-01 17:19 UTC by Ross Burton
Modified: 2022-03-17 16:28 UTC (History)
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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.