[OE-core] [PATCH 1/3] license.bbclass: allow copying license not in common licenses

[Burton, Ross]

On 23 April 2015 at 10:38, <jackie.huang at windriver.com> wrote:

> Some package like linux-firmware has many licenses that aren't in any
> way common, and new ones will be added from time to time, in order to
> avoid adding bunch of such common license files that are only applicable
> to a specific package, NO_GENERIC_LIC is added to allow copying license
> not in common licenses, it should be used in the recipe as:
>

Why can't linux-firmware just put those licenses into a directory alongside
the recipe and do something like LICENSE_PATH += "${THISDIR}/licenses"?

Ross
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