On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:00:55AM +0100, Paul Barker wrote: > On 23 April 2013 09:55, Paul Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have "SIL Open Font License" 1.1 in common-licenses as OFL-1.1. > > > > There's also a copy of the OFL 1.1 in > meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-inconsolata/OFL.txt as the > bitbake recipe just downloads a single font file. I don't know how to > do this as it goes across layers (not sure if relative paths would > work) but would it be better to replace this with reference to the > file in common-licenses? I realise this is there to satisfy having > something in LIC_FILES_CHKSUM but it isn't doing the intended job as > upstream could update the license and it wouldn't break this checksum.
You can use
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/OFL-1.1;md5=hash"
it's true, that this does not catch license change in upstream source,
but if there isn't any information about license in SRC_URI, then having
OFL.txt is as bad as ${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/OFL-1.1 reference imho.
Cheers,
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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: [email protected]
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