Hi all, As part of the 1.1 feature list I suggested a review of the INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE and COMMERCIAL* package exclusion mechanisms we have within Poky. Below I've outlined my ideas and would appreciate any comments/additions/corrections.
==== Aims ==== * Make error messages clear when user/dependencies have asked for something to be built that can't be due to restrictions * Ensure that exclusion system is reliable ==== Proposed implementation ==== 1) Ensure all documentation of LICENSE field value syntax is clear, concise and up-to-date (wiki and manual) 2) Go through and audit all recipes LICENSE field values to ensure that they all conform to the specifications. This includes making sure that | (package may be used under one of a selection of licences) and & (recipe has mixed licences that apply to the code base, so conditions of all must be observed) are used correctly. 3) bitbake/core changes: * LICENSE field checking must fully parse the field and understand the difference between | and &, and must not e.g. mark Qt as being GPLv3 only. * Make the LICENSE validity checking more strict (given recipes have been audited and rules are clear after above) * Don't exclude any recipes at parse time - simply record all excluded recipes and their runtime provides in a blacklist which also includes flags indicating the reason for blacklisting * Ensure all excluded licences in INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE are valid (e.g. catch GPL3 as apposed to GPLv3) - if not, error out * Check when calculating dependencies if anything is scheduled to be built that is on the blacklist - if any are, gather all of them up and then stop and list them in an error message along with reason and depchain for each one * Check when constructing the rootfs if anything in the runtime provides blacklist is going to be included - if so, error out Some further possible extensions: * Possibly apply similar logic to COMPATIBLE_MACHINE? * Replace COMMERCIAL* with some more generic exclusion mechanism that allows the reason to be defined as part of the exclusion list? * As a helper for non-en_US users, fail on parse if user defines any of the *LICENSE* variables as *LICENCE*? (we definitely don't want the build to continue and just ignore this as the user might not realise what has happened) Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto