**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sat Oct 21 03:00:02 2017 Oct 21 05:36:07 bodangly: DISTRO_VERSION in poky.conf Oct 21 22:11:41 Hi guys, I am thinking of doing a small yocto demo on raspberry pi of a closed-source app Oct 21 22:12:22 When looking at the licensing of different modules, I found shared-mime-info, which is I think GPLv2 licensed, but in Yocto, it says LGPLv2+ Oct 21 22:13:11 I found the commit which changed the license, but I don't know how to find more info on why: Oct 21 22:13:12 https://git.congatec.com/yocto-1-5/poky/commit/3a1fa7dd5982e812a449e5220d64e511821b07df Oct 21 22:13:25 Any help on where to look for it? Oct 21 22:30:17 That indeed seems to be a bug, Debian also has it as GPL-2.0 Oct 21 22:34:05 Thing is, binary is used only during the build, for creating a database from 'freedesktop.org.xml' file Oct 21 22:34:33 But I don't know if that affects resulting license Oct 21 22:41:11 That's a complicated question. You could check to see other distributions to see what they ship the license under? Oct 21 22:41:39 Does it matter, though? Even if it's GPL-2.0, if it's just a database and you're not using any code, there shouldn't be any effects on your code. Oct 21 22:42:47 so I can distribute it, I just can't link with it? I guess that makes sense Oct 21 22:42:56 I will look into it a bit more Oct 21 22:43:01 Thanks neverpanic! Oct 21 22:47:49 Well, you'd also have to ship the source code when you distribute it, but that's no different than the LGPL requirements. Oct 21 22:48:05 Also, just in case it wasn't obvious, I'm not a lawyer. Oct 21 22:50:50 got it ;) **** ENDING LOGGING AT Sun Oct 22 03:00:01 2017