[OE-core] [PATCH 0/2][V2] License compliance fixes

Ross Burton ross.burton at intel.com
Wed Jul 16 21:08:12 UTC 2014


Hi,

If INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE=GPLv3.0 but the recipe sets LICENSE=GPLv3, the current
code won't trigger because they're different strings.

Fix this by attempting to canonicalise every license name to a SPDX name, so
both names in this example become GPL-3.0.

The whitelists also have to be updated.  This means using variable names that
could be considered non-standard (or "crazy"), such as WHITELIST_GPL-3.0.  This
does look strange and if the community agrees we can take the compatibility hit
I'll change the whitelists to use flags, i.e HOSTTOOLS_WHITELIST[GPL-3.0].

Ross

The following changes since commit 1dcdd877c7946be4c0b1203deb14e2f842f9d0c2:

  bitbake: toasterui: fix build - project identification (2014-07-14 14:10:03 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib ross/license

for you to fetch changes up to 934289b8ba6a8b7a0f1eec8aabf723f823d515d8:

  default-distrovars: update license whitelists to use canonical names (2014-07-16 21:02:45 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Ross Burton (2):
      license.bbclass: canonicalise licenses when dealing with INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE
      default-distrovars: update license whitelists to use canonical names

 meta/classes/base.bbclass                       |    2 ++
 meta/classes/license.bbclass                    |   14 +++++++++++---
 meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc |    6 +++---
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Ross Burton (2):
  license.bbclass: canonicalise licenses when dealing with
    INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE
  default-distrovars: update license whitelists to use canonical names

 meta/classes/base.bbclass                       |    2 ++
 meta/classes/license.bbclass                    |   14 +++++++++++---
 meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc |    6 +++---
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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1.7.10.4




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