On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 13:43 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> The LICENSES file is already in LIC_FILES_CHKSUM.
> 
> Unfortunately the files themselves usually don't have clear license
> headers, but at least there is Copyright in them, so it might be
> possible to map the LICENSES files sections to actual source files
> (in cases where it's not explicitly mentioned) and then map these
> source files to package names and set the LICENSE:<pkg> to match.
> 
> I was waiting for an agreement that this is really needed as BSD is
> quite permissive and it would be surprising if LGE was the only
> company which had to fix this LICENSE issue (in long forgotten
> bbappend from 2014), so maybe someone else have already better
> upstream-able change handy (and this e-mail would be just a reminder
> to upstream it - my over-optimistic self said).

What I was meaning is for example the file inet/rcmd.c has an example
of one of the difference licenses so we could add that to
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM.

Since LICENSES does cover them, I guess that isn't strictly needed and
your patch is probably correct.

Cheers,

Richard

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