[OE-core] License manifest OR handling

[Aníbal Limón]

Jonathan,

I think is possible but i don't know how useful it is,

Can you give an example?

Regards.

On 13/10/14 17:18, Jonathan Liu wrote:
> On 14/10/2014 8:17 AM, Aníbal Limón wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I'm working in one bug [1] related to License manifest creation and i 
>> have some concerns about what is
>> expected in License creation more specifically in the OR's handling.
>>
>> I re-implemented license creation function from shell to python for 
>> use oe.license module and added support
>> for take into account INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSES.
>>
>> For example: Currently if you have LICENSE set to (MPLv2 | GPLv2.1) & 
>> LGPLv3,
>>     - With INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSES not set the result is: MPLv2 LGPLv3.
>>     - With INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSES set to MPLv2 the result is: GPLv2.1 
>> LGPLv3.
>>
>> This is that oe.license model eval's the OR expression and if you 
>> have several OR only one is chosen, this is
>> the expected behavior?, if yes i think is needed to add priorities 
>> for license choose, example [2].
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6765
>> [2] https://gist.github.com/kergoth/1590028
> I think license priority is a good idea. Would you be able to set 
> LICENSE_PRIORITY to a different values for specific recipes too?
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan