[OE-core] [PATCH] common-licenses: Refresh to current SPDX license list

[Flanagan, Elizabeth]

On 28 April 2016 at 16:27, Peter Kjellerstedt
<peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
>> [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
>> Elizabeth Flanagan
>> Sent: den 28 april 2016 14:49
>> To: openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
>> Subject: [OE-core] [PATCH] common-licenses: Refresh to current SPDX
>> license list
>>
>> This commit pulls the SPDX license list and license text from
>> http://git.spdx.org/license-list.git and reworks it slightly
>> (remove .txt extention and remove GPL+ licenses).
>>
>> Eventually we should probably consider using the actual repository
>> without edits.
>>
>> It adds quite a number of new licenses and formats the license
>> text we have so that it matches what is currently in the SPDX
>> tree.
>>
>> This patch also adds these licenses to SRC_DISTRIBUTE_LICENSES in
>> conf/licenses.conf
>>
>> I've avoided adding these to the SPDX mapping variable as most of
>> that was only needed for backwards compatibility.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Flanagan <elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com>
>> ---
>>  meta/conf/licenses.conf                            | 101 ++-
>>  meta/files/common-licenses/AAL                     |  66 +-
>
> [cut]
>
>> diff --git a/meta/files/common-licenses/AAL b/meta/files/common-
>> licenses/AAL
>> index 5484226..95c25cd 100644
>> --- a/meta/files/common-licenses/AAL
>> +++ b/meta/files/common-licenses/AAL
>> @@ -1,51 +1,23 @@
>> +Attribution Assurance License
>>
>> -Attribution Assurance License
>> -Copyright (c) 2002 by AUTHOR
>> -PROFESSIONAL IDENTIFICATION * URL
>> -"PROMOTIONAL SLOGAN FOR AUTHOR`S PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE"
>> +Copyright (c) <<var;name=copyright;original=2002 by AUTHOR PROFESSIONAL IDENTIFICATION * URL "PROMOTIONAL SLOGAN FOR AUTHOR'S PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE";match=.+>>
>
> The license texts as taken directly from the SPDX repository do
> not seem suitable for inclusion in an image as they are full of
> conditional <<...>> tags as per above. You probably need to post-
> process the files and replace all tags with something suitable...
>

Agreed. Let me look at that and I'll repost.

-b

> //Peter
>



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Elizabeth Flanagan
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