[OE-core] [PATCH] xz: Correctly specify GPL-3.0 with autoconf exception

[Christopher Larson]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>
wrote:

> If that is the way we want to move forward, then my recommendation would
> be to
> add a new field for that.
>
> LICENSE-SRC = "source license list"
> LICENSE = "declared license for the expected output of the build"
> LICENSE_<package> = "The license for the items in this specific package"
>
> Where:
>
>  LICENSE ?= "${LICENSE-SRC}"
>
>  LICENSE_<package> ?= "${LICENSE}"
>
> I see a lot of potential work here, but I don't see the benefit though.
>
> I don't know of any cases where someone has gotten in trouble, or even
> questioned, when the build system has a slightly different license then
> output
> of the build.  The GNU build tools are definitely the biggest example I
> can give
> here.
>

I would say we should introduce LICENSE-SRC, alter archiver.bbclass to use
it, and set LICENSE-SRC ?= "${LICENSE}" instead. Much less work, but then
we have a variable we can append to if we run into a case like that which
we've discussed, without increasing work for the more common cases.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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