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[meta-oe] android-tools: drop GPL-2.0-only from LICENSE

Message ID 20261022142449.2372030-1-ecordonnier@snap.com
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Series [meta-oe] android-tools: drop GPL-2.0-only from LICENSE | expand

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Etienne Cordonnier Oct. 22, 2026, 2:24 p.m. UTC 
From: Etienne Cordonnier <ecordonnier@snap.com>

The GPL-2.0 entry dates back to the first recipe (AOSP android-5.1.1_r37,
2016) and was carried over unchanged to the Debian android-platform-tools
based 35.0.2 recipe.

In the android-5.1.1_r37 repos the recipe fetched, the only GPLv2 mentions
are headers which are dual licensed "Apache 2.0 OR GPLv2"
(system/core include/cutils/ashmem.h, include/utils/ashmem.h,
include/log/logger.h), kernel headers in libion which are not built, and
documentation templates. Apache-2.0 can be chosen for all of them.

The 35.0.2 sources come from Debian's android-platform-tools, whose
debian/copyright lists no GPL license: the files are Apache-2.0, BSD,
Expat, Khronos, PSF and public-domain, and a scan of the unpacked tarball
finds no GPL licensed source files.

Remove GPL-2.0-only from LICENSE and LIC_FILES_CHKSUM so that the recipe is
not wrongly treated as GPL by license based tooling (e.g. copyleft source
archiving).

Signed-off-by: Etienne Cordonnier <ecordonnier@snap.com>
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 meta-oe/recipes-devtools/android-tools/android-tools_35.0.2.bb | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/android-tools/android-tools_35.0.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/android-tools/android-tools_35.0.2.bb
index 65529c1b53..b7cb062410 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/android-tools/android-tools_35.0.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/android-tools/android-tools_35.0.2.bb
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@ 
 DESCRIPTION = "Various utilities from Android"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-only"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
     file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/Apache-2.0;md5=89aea4e17d99a7cacdbeed46a0096b10 \
-    file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/GPL-2.0-only;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6 \
     file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/BSD-2-Clause;md5=cb641bc04cda31daea161b1bc15da69f \
     file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/BSD-3-Clause;md5=550794465ba0ec5312d6919e203a55f9 \
 "