On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 01:50:14PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 12:46 PM Wes Lindauer <wesley.linda...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Although xz has some files that are GPLv3 licensed, none of them get
> > packaged up, and therefore none of it ends up in the final rootfs. Since
> > there is no GPLv3 code in the final image, we don't want to include it
> > when we collect licenses, as that would give the incorrect impression
> > that the image contains GPLv3 code.
>
> We will be distributing this in src packages though. Maybe these files
> should be deleted before the build even starts.
OE does licence tracking on binary packages, not on source packages.
There are recipes that build binary packages with different licences
from the same sources.
cu
Adrian
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