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

[Andrei Gherzan]

Digging into your commit i realized that this is already done. Thank you.

@g

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 00:15, Andrei Gherzan <andrei at gherzan.ro> wrote:

> 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> Elizabeth Flanagan
>> Yocto Project
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