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

Martin Jansa martin.jansa at gmail.com
Tue Oct 10 14:37:19 UTC 2017


> How many recipes do you guys keep up to date on a regular basis? :-)

If this is some kind of pissing contest, then over 700 just in our internal
layers (not counting any work on meta-oe, meta-qt5, meta-webos-ports or
meta-smartphone layers).

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Alexander Kanavin <
alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> 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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