[Buildroot] [PATCH] qt5script: correct license information

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Mon Apr 2 14:31:39 UTC 2018



On 02-04-18 16:15, Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) wrote:
> The license information in qt5script was just copied from all the other
> qt5 modules, but it is different (and complicated).
> 
> - libQt5Script itself contains the third-party JavaScriptCore source.
>   JavaScriptCore has a number of licenses: BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause,
>   LGPL-2.0+, LGPL-2.1+. Since it is all linked together, the end
>   result will be BSD-3-Clause or LGPL-2.1+.
> 
>   The different BSD licenses are all slightly different (different
>   authors, which affects the third clause in particular). Only one
>   separate license file is provided, so let's use that one.
> 
>   There is an LGPL-2.0 license file, which is slightly different from
>   the top-level LICENSE.LGPLv21, so let's add that one as well.
> 
> - libQt5Script also contains Qt-specific code which is all licensed
>   under LGPL-2.1 only. This is covered by the LICENSE.LGPLv21 file.
>   It merges with the LGPL-2.1+ from JavaScriptCore but limits it to
>   2.1 only.
> 
> - libQt5ScriptTools is a separate libary containing just the script
>   debugger. It is covered by the usual Qt license:
>   * LGPL-2.1 or LGPL-3.0 with exception for Qt 5.6;
>   * LGPL-3.0 or GPL-2.0+ for Qt 5.9 (actually it is GPL-2.0 or GPL-3.0
>     or any later version approved by the KDE Qt foundation, but let's
>     keep it simple :-). Note that there is no LICENSE.GPLv2 provided,
>     only LICENSE.GPLv3. Also, there is no mention of the exception in
>     the Qt 5.9 sources, even though the LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt is still
>     present.
> 
> Update the license information with all of the above. Also add hashes
> for the new license files from JavaScriptCore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>

 Applied to master with some minor changes suggested by Thomas IRL, thanks.

 Regards,
 Arnout

> ---
>  package/qt5/qt5script/qt5script.hash |  2 ++
>  package/qt5/qt5script/qt5script.mk   | 17 +++++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/qt5/qt5script/qt5script.hash b/package/qt5/qt5script/qt5script.hash
> index bcb37801a8..9b43e5fd65 100644
> --- a/package/qt5/qt5script/qt5script.hash
> +++ b/package/qt5/qt5script/qt5script.hash
> @@ -10,3 +10,5 @@ sha256 1996a36160b2158c2be264d2ddfa6148ebe0f1ececff55aca8d754a1ddcc7bb8 LICENSE.
>  sha256 438c1f9a2b256e47dac33249f2ad6d4a9df643f1ec5312216d528a2f7ad82084 LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt
>  sha256 5ceb37d1c7c1d92878b82af3c0fd5558087f3d5a08a3a4d43850bad4ad265a52 LICENSE.LGPLv3
>  sha256 ed8742a95cb9db653a09b050e27ccff5e67ba69c14aa2c3137f2a4e1892f6c0d LICENSE.FDL
> +sha256 5094ecb9c9dcd0eadc34f3c11511d9b5535063032bc150164ecd1a5d5a445547 src/3rdparty/javascriptcore/JavaScriptCore/COPYING.LIB
> +sha256 43b007cd3ac7b7ea5284b13e9580334028e6f42e859059605d57558f39374197 src/3rdparty/javascriptcore/JavaScriptCore/pcre/COPYING
> diff --git a/package/qt5/qt5script/qt5script.mk b/package/qt5/qt5script/qt5script.mk
> index b6c02d0d1c..9539f56df6 100644
> --- a/package/qt5/qt5script/qt5script.mk
> +++ b/package/qt5/qt5script/qt5script.mk
> @@ -10,8 +10,21 @@ QT5SCRIPT_SOURCE = qtscript-opensource-src-$(QT5SCRIPT_VERSION).tar.xz
>  QT5SCRIPT_DEPENDENCIES = qt5base
>  QT5SCRIPT_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
>  
> -QT5SCRIPT_LICENSE = GPL-3.0 or LGPL-2.1 with exception or LGPL-3.0, GFDL-1.3 (docs)
> -QT5SCRIPT_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.GPLv3 LICENSE.LGPLv21 LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt LICENSE.LGPLv3 LICENSE.FDL
> +# JavaScriptCore contains files under BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, and LGPL-2+.
> +# This is linked into libQt5Script, which also contains Qt sources under
> +# LGPL-2.1 (only). Therefore, the library is  LGPL-2.1 and BSD-3-Clause.
> +# libQt5ScriptTools is under the normal Qt opensource license.
> +ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_VERSION_LATEST),y)
> +QT5SCRIPT_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1, BSD-3-Clause, LGPL-3.0 or GPL-2.0+ (libQt5ScriptTools), GFDL-1.3 (docs)
> +QT5SCRIPT_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.LGPLv21 LICENSE.LGPLv3 LICENSE.GPLv3 LICENSE.FDL
> +else
> +QT5SCRIPT_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1, BSD-3-Clause, LGPL-2.1 with exception or LGPL-3.0 with exception (libQt5ScriptTools), GFDL-1.3 (docs)
> +QT5SCRIPT_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.LGPLv21 LICENSE.LGPLv3 LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt LICENSE.FDL
> +endif
> +# License files from JavaScriptCore
> +QT5SCRIPT_LICENSE_FILES += \
> +	src/3rdparty/javascriptcore/JavaScriptCore/COPYING.LIB \
> +	src/3rdparty/javascriptcore/JavaScriptCore/pcre/COPYING
>  
>  define QT5SCRIPT_CONFIGURE_CMDS
>  	(cd $(@D); $(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(HOST_DIR)/bin/qmake)
> 

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