Project licensing

[Edwin Estrada]

Hello, 

I have a new chromium OS project where source would go to src/partner_private.  Does anyone know what is the correct license to use on the ebuild and on the sources?

I am from Logitech.  I also use some thirdparty libraries/sources that  I listed below with their licenses
- libusb-1.0          - GNU Lesser General Public License
- JSON for Modern C++ - MIT License
- Protobuf            - Google Inc

[Mike Frysinger]

the ebuild should normally be GPL-2 like other ones.  we sometimes use BSD-3 as we've been a bit lazy.  it's fine for the ebuild license to be diff from the package's own license.

as for what license your project uses, we can't tell you.  the author/owner of the code (sounds like Logitech in this case) are the only ones that can decide the license for source code they produce as the copyright holders.  similarly, whether your project complies with licensing requirements of dependencies is for your lawyers to determine.  we (CrOS/Google) cannot provide legal advice on these matters.

if you're asking "what should i do to make my life easy", that's easy.  MIT or BSD-2 or BSD-3 is the easiest thing to process.  and release it on GitHub as OSS.  that simplifies the process greatly.

-mike

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[Edwin Estrada]

Thank you for Mike.