You should really try per-image INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE :) Maintaining those whitelists/excludes is awkward, as developers constantly want more of them.
Alex On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 at 09:00, Mikko Rapeli <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 04:20:01PM -0800, Andre McCurdy wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 3:01 PM Saul Wold <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Folks, > > > > > > I am working on a proposal to re-write how INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSES is used > > > and processed to possibly include a COMPATIBLE_LICENSES variable as > > > well, see PeterK's email [0] > > > > > > I am trying to determine the usage of WHITELIST_<license> which would be > > > used to override a license that might be listed in INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSES > > > variable. > > > > > > Randy and I have done a quick and dirty survey of a 100 or so layers > > > (thanks Randy) and could not find any real usage other than what's > > > currently in OE-Core for WHITELIST_GPL-3.0. > > > > > > If you are using WHITELIST_<license>, please let me reply with your usage. > > > > Common case seems to be allowing gdb in debug builds of distros which > > are otherwise free of GPLv3 etc, e.g. > > > > > > https://github.com/MentorEmbedded/meta-mentor/blob/master/meta-mel/conf/distro/include/gdbserver-gplv3.inc > > https://github.com/lgirdk/meta-mng/blob/ofw-2112.6/conf/distro/mng.conf > > Exactly, I'm using this in a lot of projects. > > Basically distro config has: > > INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE_append += " GPLv3 GPLv3+ LGPLv3 LGPLv3+" > > and then various GPLv3 tools are allowed in build but not allowed to be > part of images: > > WHITELIST_GPL-3.0 += "binutils" > PACKAGE_EXCLUDE += "binutils-dbg binutils-staticdev binutils-dev binutils-doc > binutils-locale libbfd binutils" > > WHITELIST_GPL-3.0 += "gdb" > PACKAGE_EXCLUDE += "gdb-sdktests-dbg gdb-sdktests gdbserver gdb-dbg > gdb-staticdev gdb-dev gdb-doc gdb-locale gdb" > > WHITELIST_GPL-3.0 += "rsync" > PACKAGE_EXCLUDE += "rsync-dbg rsync-staticdev rsync-dev rsync-doc > rsync-locale rsync" > > etc etc. > > Use case is that developers can install additional GPLv3 licensed tooling if > they > need to debug something, but product images don't include them by default. > > Cheers, > > -Mikko > >
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