[OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] linux-firmware: fix the mess of licenses

[Huang, Jie (Jackie)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Eggleton [mailto:paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 7:02 PM
> To: Huang, Jie (Jackie)
> Cc: openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] linux-firmware: fix the mess of licenses
> 
> Hi Jackie,
> 
> On Monday 13 April 2015 10:17:19 jackie.huang at windriver.com wrote:
> > From: Jackie Huang <jackie.huang at windriver.com>
> >
> > linux-firmware includes many firmwares and each firmware has their own
> > license, previously the LICENSE is set to "Proprietary" and some
> > firmware is split out to separate package such as
> > linux-firmware-radeon and LICENSE_linux-firmware-radeon is set to
> > "Firmware-radeon", but there is no license file in the common-licenses, so we got a lot warnings
> like:
> >
> > WARNING: The license listed Firmware-radeon was not in the licenses
> > collected for linux-firmware
> >
> > These include adding the missing license files and re-orgnize the
> > codes to fix the warnings and avoid the mess.
> 
> So doing this cleanup is good, thanks; but I was wondering if we needed an alternative approach for
> linux-firmware. Most of the licenses in it aren't in any way common, and new ones will be added
> from time to time, requiring us to not only update the recipe (probably unavoidable) but also add
> the licenses to the common license directory. Is there any way we could make it so we at least only
> have to update the recipe and dispense with the need to add a bunch of common license files that
> are only applicable to linux-firmware?

Maybe we can keep those linux-firmware licenses in the recipe directory instead of COMMON_LICENSE_DIR
and add LICENSE_PATH += "${COREBASE}/meta/ recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/files"?

Thanks,
Jackie

> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
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> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre