Bug 9751

Summary:	expat legal info - manifest.csv: GPLv2 Source site: MIT License (Buildroot 2017-02)
Product:	buildroot	Reporter:	Timo Välimäki <timo.valimaki>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	VERIFIED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	buildroot
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Timo Välimäki 2017-03-18 08:32:07 UTC

I started to make legal check to my Buildroot build - first time.

NAME=Buildroot
VERSION=2017.02
ID=buildroot
VERSION_ID=2017.02
PRETTY_NAME="Buildroot 2017.02"

When I checked Licenses listed in the manifest.csv file and then compared what is said on actual source site I found differences.

E.g. package: expat - Manifest indicates GPLv2 but source site (https://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/?source=navbar) indicates MIT License.

Is this due to a bug in expat package license info or something else?

Comment 1 Thomas Petazzoni 2017-03-18 12:59:42 UTC

I just tried legal-info with the expat package enabled, and I get:

"expat","2.2.0","MIT","COPYING","expat-2.2.0.tar.bz2","http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.2.0"

The expat package has the correct "MIT" license since we added license information to this package in commit https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/package/expat?id=180c091a83e569d23d1ab2525ac5ef7ea9b5ee90 almost 5 years ago.

So I'm sorry, but I don't see a bug here. Are you sure you didn't misread the manifest.csv ?

Comment 2 Timo Välimäki 2017-03-18 13:14:44 UTC

You are correct, my bad.

I sorted the manifest.csv based on LICENSE column with Gnumeric Spreadsheet (using first time). I just re-run the sort I found out that I sorted only the LICENSE column and not the whole sheet as I assumed.

Case closed.