[OE-core] [PATCH] cmake: Upgrade to 3.9.3 release

Alexander Kanavin alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com
Tue Oct 10 14:29:13 UTC 2017


On 10/10/2017 04:57 PM, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:

> That is not the entire story though. If you have COPY_LIC_MANIFEST and
> COPY_LIC_DIRS set in your configuration, the relevant licenses will be
> installed in the image, and for licenses specified with beginline and/or
> endline this only includes the specified lines.

Thanks, I did not know that.

> Then, if the license requires that you include the copyright information,
> which is pretty common, e.g., BSD, leaving out that part just to avoid
> having to update the recipe once a year means that you are not really
> complying with the license... And neither will any users of the layer
> be who believe they are covered license wise by including the license
> information bitbake produces and installs in their images.

Once a year times the amount of recipes one maintains. Which, for me is 
111 oe-core recipes, plus 76 oe-core recipes that Jussi Kukkonen left 
behind. How many recipes do you guys keep up to date on a regular basis? :-)

We actually have an open bug to provide better tooling for manually 
comparing the licenses [1], but no progress has been made with that for 
a long time. Paul, how is it now?

[1] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10801

Alex



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