[oe] [RFC] LICENSE fields and packages

[Koen Kooi]

On 26-11-08 14:57, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 13:27 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> On 26-11-08 12:31, Phil Blundell wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 12:21 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>>> ${PN}-license package on which all entries from PACKAGES will RDEPEND?
>>>> Any objections to doing it this way till we have a proper bbclass?
>>> I think this is a fine idea.  It should be a DISTRO opt-in choice, of
>>> course, but I can't see any reason not to provide the facility.
>> My idea was to make it opt-in on a per package basis since DISTROs can
>> include base-files-doc for the most commit licenses (GPL, MIT, BSD, etc).
>
> Hm, right.  I guess the selection should be both per-package and
> per-DISTRO.
>
> How about allowing the DISTRO to specify a regexp for the licences that
> it "knows about"; any package for which ${LICENSE} doesn't match the
> regexp will get the ${PN}-license thing.  The default regexp would be
> set to ".*" in bitbake.conf, in order to preserve the current behaviour
> of not emitting any ${PN}-license; DISTROs that want to make use of the
> new feature can set it to whatever they like.

Sounds great.

regards,

Koen