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

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 28 April 2015 12:48:50 Burton, Ross wrote:
> 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"?

I'd rather not have to extract those licenses and potentially have them drift 
from the ones fetched from the source; besides, that gives us almost no benefit 
over not doing this change at all.

This is about (a) acknowledging that linux-firmware is a bit special with 
regard to licensing compared to other recipes and (b) keeping the additional 
maintenance required to a minimum.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre