[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] Remove $COREBASE/LICENSE from LIC_FILES_CHKSUM
Olaf Mandel
o.mandel at menlosystems.com
Thu Oct 20 11:11:30 UTC 2016
Hello,
Am 20.10.2016 um 12:44 schrieb Peter Kjellerstedt:
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> Even after this is applied, there are still nine recipes in OE-Core
> that reference ${COREBASE}/LICENSE. There is also an example in
> dev-manual-common-tasks.xml with a reference to ${COREBASE}/LICENSE.
> AFAICT, they all look just like the ones that this patch removes.
> Any reason they were not fixed as well?
>
"Why not patch the nine remaining recipes": see my cover letter
"[OE-core][PATCH 0/1] $COREBASE/LICENSE in LIC_FILES_CHKSUM":
>>> I patched out the global LICENSE file from all those recipes that
>>> are short enough and where I feel reasonably confident of not
>>> having actually changed the claimed license terms in any way.
>>>
>>> There are additional recipes that reference the global LICENSE
>>> file, but where I am not sure if a less blanket license declaration
>>> is appropriate or not. Especially for meta-toolchain and
>>> build-appliance-image, the global LICENSE is probably correct.
>>> Any comments?
So please comment away :-)
> There are also 17 recipes in OpenEmbedded with a reference to
> ${COREBASE}/LICENSE. They too need to be fixed.
>
Same as for dev-manual-common-tasks.xml: I was not a aware of those and
not all belong on the openembedded-core list. And for the example: it
should only be patched once this patch for formfactor_0.0.bb is accepted.
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