Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4] package/nettle: clarify license info

Thomas Perale via buildroot <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:05:16 +0200
Newsgroups net.busybox.buildroot
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In reply of:
> The Nettle manual (nettle.html in the source archive) states:
> 
> > Nettle is dual licenced under the GNU General Public License version
> > 2 or later, and the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 or
> > later. When using Nettle, you must comply fully with all conditions
> > of at least one of these licenses. [...]
> 
> This means "or" is the correct description. Ellipsis covers a note
> that a few files are licensed more permissively.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fiona Klute (Othermo GmbH) <[email protected]>

Applied to 2025.02.x & 2026.05.x. Thanks

> ---
>  package/nettle/nettle.mk | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/nettle/nettle.mk b/package/nettle/nettle.mk
> index 93c638a4cd..dbbd60622d 100644
> --- a/package/nettle/nettle.mk
> +++ b/package/nettle/nettle.mk
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ NETTLE_VERSION = 3.10.2
>  NETTLE_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/nettle
>  NETTLE_DEPENDENCIES = host-m4 gmp
>  NETTLE_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
> -NETTLE_LICENSE = Dual GPL-2.0+/LGPL-3.0+
> +NETTLE_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+ or LGPL-3.0+
>  NETTLE_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING.LESSERv3 COPYINGv2
>  NETTLE_CPE_ID_VALID = YES
>  # don't include openssl support for (unused) examples as it has problems
> -- 
> 2.53.0
> 
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