[OE-core] [PATCH 0/1] $COREBASE/LICENSE in LIC_FILES_CHKSUM

[Paul Eggleton]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:29:55 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> For images and other recipes that don't pull in anything by themselves,
> there shouldn't be a need for LIC_FILES_CHKSUM (or indeed LICENSE) to be
> set at all - in order to understand the license for the result the
> appropriate place to look is the license manifest that represents
> everything that goes into the image. In fact, in master / morty, if SRC_URI
> is empty then LIC_FILES_CHKSUM is no longer verified [1].

Actually I will correct that statement to match the code - LIC_FILES_CHKSUM
is no longer *mandatory* if SRC_URI is not set. If it is set, it will still
be checked.

Cheers,
Paul

[1] http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=c269547ae8e90a78349f6003385137e4145e145f

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre