If you have COPY_LIC_DIRS enabled, the license files (the ones listed in
LICENSE and the (parts) listed in LIC_FILES_CHKSUM) will be included in the
generated image by license_image.bbclass. Extraction of the license information
is handled by license.bbclass, which also is responsible for creating ${PN}-lic
packages if LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE is set.
//Peter
From: Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]>
Sent: den 2 juni 2020 09:30
To: Peter Kjellerstedt <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 65/70] libyaml: adjust license checksum to omit
copyright year lines.
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 00:12, Peter Kjellerstedt
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
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> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of
> Alexander Kanavin
> Sent: den 31 maj 2020 17:53
> To:
> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> Cc: Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: [OE-core] [PATCH 65/70] libyaml: adjust license checksum to omit
> copyright year lines.
Eh, what? That's definitely not the right thing to do. For a license
that says "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall
be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.",
removing the copyright information makes the file useless as part of,
e.g., ${PN}-lic.
As far as I understand, the extracts from LIC_FILES_CHKSUM are not used in
copies or substantial portions of the software,
they are used in tmp/deploy/licenses (which is neither). Is it beneficial to
have the copyright years and owners
there? The idea behind dropping them is that we can avoid continuous adjusting
of the checksum on version updates.
If you archive the source code, or install binaries to the target, this
mechanism is not involved.
I am not aware of ${PN}-lic, can you please point where that is defined?
Alex
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