[OE-core] LICENSE_{X}-xxx is parsed?

[Andrei Gherzan]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 20:44, Flanagan, Elizabeth <
elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Andrei Gherzan <andrei at gherzan.ro>
> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > Is there any mechanism of parsing LICENSE variables for every provided
> > package in a bb file?
> >
> > To be a little more clear about this.
> >
> > If i have an app named myapp. Let's say the myapp_1.0.bb includes:
> > LICENSE = "GPLv3 & LGPLv2.1"
> > LICENSE_${PN} = LGPLv2.1
> > LICENSE_${PN} -tests = GPLv3
> >
> > If this app is not whitelisted, this file will pe ignored (assuming
> > INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE = GPLv3) even if the only needed package on the
> final
> > fs is the ${PN} package.
> >
>
> As you have package level licensing set, it will actually check the
> LICENSE_${PN}. See:
> bdf2d94c35b7e5ed1723f987696a6c865bff212c Which means it will go and
> use the PN level
> license to determine if it should be excluded. If no PN level exists
> it should fall back to LICENSE
>
>
I realize this but still, what about the rest for packages provided in a bb
file?


>  > For files in these case (like gnults) we use right now WHITELIST. In
> this
> > way license checking on those packages is skipped.
> >
> > If nobody works on this (or this is already done but i couldn't spot it
> in
> > the code) i can dig and propose a way to solve this issue.
> >
> > @g
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>
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> Elizabeth Flanagan
> Yocto Project
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