[oe] [RFC] LICENSE fields and packages

[Koen Kooi]

On 25-11-08 20:54, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 20:26 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Jason Kridner pointed out that we don't actually put the license in the
>> resulting packages, making it hard for finding the license if you only
>> have a bunch or packages.
>>
>> http://cgit.openembedded.net/cgit.cgi?url=openembedded/commit/&id=e35d1ffad1553f259b084578992f15d10f590f98
>>
>> Now the RFC part:
>>
>> Allow URLs in the LICENSE field for lesser know licenses and/or
>> click-through licenses.
>>
>> Related to that: a class that would take a text file and generate a
>> preinsts that shows the textfile and prompts to accept it (or not) would
>> be awesome as well.
>>
>> Back to the point: what do you think of allowing URLs in the LICENSE field?
>
> I don't like the idea of urls in the field itself. I would however love
> to see a class file with a list of valid field entries and corresponding
> urls to the appropriate licence along with other information like
> distributability. In due course I'd like to see that being mandatory for
> new .bb files.

We can start by having insane.bbclass disallowing "Unknown" as license, 
which seems to be the default license in OE.

regards,

Koen