[oe] [RFC] LICENSE fields and packages
Koen Kooi
k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Tue Nov 25 21:02:00 UTC 2008
On 25-11-08 21:13, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Tuesday 25 of November 2008 20:26:24 Koen Kooi napisał(a):
>> Back to the point: what do you think of allowing URLs in the LICENSE
>> field?
>
> Show me code which will make use of it first? Why not add license to
> SRC_URI?
At this point it's not about code, it's about being able to show a legal
department that the license is referenced in the package.
How would a non-OE user know that http://openembedded.org/dl/ICA2.txt is
the license? Shipping the license itself in the packages would be
better, but that will need a lot of thought, since we can't have a 1000
packages shipping /usr/share/licenses/GPLv2, and *all* packages from a
recipe need a license, even -doc, -dev -and -dbg.
The concrete problem I have is that I have a bunch of licenses that
don't have a name (not even inside the company that wrote them), so my
recipes have things like
LICENSE = "proprietary binary"
LICENSE = "evil binary"
So as short term solution I'd like to be able to point to a url for the
'licenses without a proper name' and for the long term have a proper,
package format independant solution.
regards,
Koen
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