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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable meta-oe was using BSD-0-Clause see https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/88/builds/1506 I have sent a fix for that On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 2:40 PM Peter Kjellerstedt wrote: > > This removes BSD-0-Clause, Nauman, tcl and vim and adds mappings for > them to their SPDX counterparts (0BSD, Naumen, TCL and Vim). > > It also removes FreeType, which already had a mapping to FTL. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Kjellerstedt > --- > > In case anyone is interested, the following command (executed in > meta/files/common-licenses) can be used to list all licenses that are > not present in spdx-licenses.json: > > ls | grep -Ev "^($(sed -nre 's/.*"licenseId": "(.*)".*/\1/p' ../../file= s/spdx-licenses.json | sort | tr '\n' '|'))\$" > > meta/conf/licenses.conf | 30 +++-- > meta/files/common-licenses/BSD-0-Clause | 12 -- > meta/files/common-licenses/FreeType | 170 ------------------------ > meta/files/common-licenses/Nauman | 50 ------- > meta/files/common-licenses/tcl | 40 ------ > meta/files/common-licenses/vim | 81 ----------- > 6 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 365 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 meta/files/common-licenses/BSD-0-Clause > delete mode 100644 meta/files/common-licenses/FreeType > delete mode 100644 meta/files/common-licenses/Nauman > delete mode 100644 meta/files/common-licenses/tcl > delete mode 100644 meta/files/common-licenses/vim > > diff --git a/meta/conf/licenses.conf b/meta/conf/licenses.conf > index e2bd58f84a..991fb6cc23 100644 > --- a/meta/conf/licenses.conf > +++ b/meta/conf/licenses.conf > @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ SPDXLICENSEMAP[AGPLv3.0+] =3D "AGPL-3.0-or-later" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[AGPL-3.0] =3D "AGPL-3.0-only" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[AGPL-3.0+] =3D "AGPL-3.0-or-later" > > +# BSD variations > +SPDXLICENSEMAP[BSD-0-Clause] =3D "0BSD" > + > # GPL variations > SPDXLICENSEMAP[GPL-1] =3D "GPL-1.0-only" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[GPL-1+] =3D "GPL-1.0-or-later" > @@ -45,7 +48,7 @@ SPDXLICENSEMAP[GPLv3.0+] =3D "GPL-3.0-or-later" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[GPL-3.0] =3D "GPL-3.0-only" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[GPL-3.0+] =3D "GPL-3.0-or-later" > > -#LGPL variations > +# LGPL variations > SPDXLICENSEMAP[LGPLv2] =3D "LGPL-2.0-only" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[LGPLv2+] =3D "LGPL-2.0-or-later" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[LGPLv2.0] =3D "LGPL-2.0-only" > @@ -63,49 +66,52 @@ SPDXLICENSEMAP[LGPLv3+] =3D "LGPL-3.0-or-later" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[LGPL-3.0] =3D "LGPL-3.0-only" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[LGPL-3.0+] =3D "LGPL-3.0-or-later" > > -#MPL variations > +# MPL variations > SPDXLICENSEMAP[MPL-1] =3D "MPL-1.0" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[MPLv1] =3D "MPL-1.0" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[MPLv1.1] =3D "MPL-1.1" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[MPLv2] =3D "MPL-2.0" > > -#MIT variations > +# MIT variations > SPDXLICENSEMAP[MIT-X] =3D "MIT" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[MIT-style] =3D "MIT" > > -#Openssl variations > +# Openssl variations > SPDXLICENSEMAP[openssl] =3D "OpenSSL" > > -#PSF variations > +# PSF variations > SPDXLICENSEMAP[PSF] =3D "PSF-2.0" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[PSFv2] =3D "PSF-2.0" > > -#Python variations > +# Python variations > SPDXLICENSEMAP[Python-2] =3D "Python-2.0" > > -#Apache variations > +# Apache variations > SPDXLICENSEMAP[Apachev2] =3D "Apache-2.0" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[Apache-2] =3D "Apache-2.0" > > -#Artistic variations > +# Artistic variations > SPDXLICENSEMAP[Artisticv1] =3D "Artistic-1.0" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[Artistic-1] =3D "Artistic-1.0" > > -#Academic variations > +# Academic variations > SPDXLICENSEMAP[AFL-2] =3D "AFL-2.0" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[AFL-1] =3D "AFL-1.2" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[AFLv2] =3D "AFL-2.0" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[AFLv1] =3D "AFL-1.2" > > -#CDDL variations > +# CDDL variations > SPDXLICENSEMAP[CDDLv1] =3D "CDDL-1.0" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[CDDL-1] =3D "CDDL-1.0" > > -#Other variations > +# Other variations > SPDXLICENSEMAP[EPLv1.0] =3D "EPL-1.0" > SPDXLICENSEMAP[FreeType] =3D "FTL" > +SPDXLICENSEMAP[Nauman] =3D "Naumen" > +SPDXLICENSEMAP[tcl] =3D "TCL" > +SPDXLICENSEMAP[vim] =3D "Vim" > > -#Silicon Graphics variations > +# Silicon Graphics variations > SPDXLICENSEMAP[SGIv1] =3D "SGI-1" > > # Additional license directories. Add your custom licenses directories t= his path. > diff --git a/meta/files/common-licenses/BSD-0-Clause b/meta/files/common-= licenses/BSD-0-Clause > deleted file mode 100644 > index 328bdd6aee..0000000000 > --- a/meta/files/common-licenses/BSD-0-Clause > +++ /dev/null > @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ > -Copyright (C) by > - > -Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any > -purpose with or without fee is hereby granted. > - > -THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES > -WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF > -MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. 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