On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 15:04 +0000, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] <openembedded-
> > [email protected]> On Behalf Of Meh Mbeh Ida Delphine
> > Sent: den 17 februari 2021 05:01
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [OE-core] [poky-contrib][RFC PATCH 4/5] license.bbclass: Add
> > functions to split and canonicalise license strings
> > 
> > These functions that will later be used in package.bbclass simply make the
> > source and recipe licenses in the same format so that they can easily be
> > compared and the ouput warnings filtered accordingly.
> > split_spdx_lic() splits the license strings and returns a set of the
> > canonicalised licenses.
> > rem_false_lics() does two things:
> > - Converts '-or-later' licenses to their canonicalised form
> > - Gets rid of "WITH Linux-syscall-note" from license string if specified
> > in local.conf
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ida Delphine <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  meta/classes/license.bbclass | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/classes/license.bbclass b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
> > index dc91118340..576464cb26 100644
> > --- a/meta/classes/license.bbclass
> > +++ b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
> > @@ -435,3 +435,30 @@ python do_populate_lic_setscene () {
> >      sstate_setscene(d)
> >  }
> >  addtask do_populate_lic_setscene
> > +
> > +
> > +def split_spdx_lic(d, licensestr):
> > +    """
> > +    Split the license strings and returns a set of the
> > +    canonicalised licenses.
> > +    """
> > +    import oe.license
> > +    split_lic = oe.license.list_licenses(licensestr)
> > +    spdx_lic = set([canonical_license(d, l) for l in split_lic])
> > +    return spdx_lic
> > +
> > +def rem_false_lics(d, pkglic):
> > +    pkglicsperpkg = set([])
> > +    for l in pkglic:
> > +        if l.endswith('-or-later'):
> > +            # Converts '-or-later' licenses to their canonicalised form
> > +            lic_ = l.replace('-or-later', '+')
> 
> Given that licenses such as "GPL-2.0+" are deprecated by SPDX, shouldn't we 
> instead introduce the canonical "GPL-2.0-only" and "GPL-2.0-or-later"?
> And then add mappings for, e.g., "GPL-2.0" to "GPL-2.0-only" and "GPL-2.0+" 
> to "GPL-2.0-or-later".

Something like:
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?h=master-next&id=1c2ce4565bc85915ab970e42bf7af3a78ec2dd6a
?

:)

> > +            pkglicsperpkg.add(lic_)
> > +        elif l.endswith(' WITH Linux-syscall-note'):
> > +        # Gets rid of "WITH Linux-syscall-note from license sring"
> > +            if d.getVar("LICENSE_WITH_LINUX_SYS") == "1":
> > +                lic_ = l.replace(' WITH Linux-syscall-note', '')
> 
> Looking at https://spdx.org/licenses/exceptions-index.html, there is a long 
> list of predefined exceptions and "Linux-syscall-note" is just one of them. 
> We probably want a more generic solution for how to handle exceptions.

Agreed, I was trying to make that point in one of my replies!

Cheers,

Richard
> 

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