[libcamera-devel,PATCH/RFC,03/11] licenses: Remove unused LGPL-2.1

2815 diff mbox series

No source is licensed under the LGPL-2.1, remove the corresponding
license file.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
---
 LICENSES/LGPL-2.1.txt | 502 ------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 502 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 LICENSES/LGPL-2.1.txt

Hi Laurent,

On 13/02/2020 15:36, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> No source is licensed under the LGPL-2.1, remove the corresponding
> license file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>


I assume this is because they are all LGPL-2.1 or later?

git grep seems to agree so:

Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>

> ---
>  LICENSES/LGPL-2.1.txt | 502 ------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 502 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 LICENSES/LGPL-2.1.txt
> 
> diff --git a/LICENSES/LGPL-2.1.txt b/LICENSES/LGPL-2.1.txt
> deleted file mode 100644
> index e5ab03e1238a..000000000000
> --- a/LICENSES/LGPL-2.1.txt
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,502 +0,0 @@
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Hi Kieran,

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 04:01:45PM +0000, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> On 13/02/2020 15:36, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > No source is licensed under the LGPL-2.1, remove the corresponding
> > license file.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> 
> I assume this is because they are all LGPL-2.1 or later?

Correct, I'll update the commit message.

"No source is licensed under the LGPL-2.1, we only use LGPL-2.1-or-later. 
Remove the corresponding license file."

> git grep seems to agree so:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
> 
> > ---
> >  LICENSES/LGPL-2.1.txt | 502 ------------------------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 502 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 LICENSES/LGPL-2.1.txt
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