The top level LICENSE file is not actually a license, it refers
other licenses that are used by Bitbake and Meta-data. Relying
on this file could cause problems for recipes when this file
changes, which it is about to.
(From OE-Core rev: a1948ab38c9cb7f0b16cce9dadc03ae6e2fe44ad)
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <s...@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
v2: Made one bb.warn instead of 2 and changed up comment
Available in poky-contrib/sgw/insane
meta/classes/insane.bbclass | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/meta/classes/insane.bbclass b/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
index 3906ba7..aa304f1 100644
--- a/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ python populate_lic_qa_checksum() {
sane = package_qa_handle_error("license-checksum", pn + ": Recipe file
fetches files and does not have license file information (LIC_FILES_CHKSUM)", d)
srcdir = d.getVar('S')
-
+ corebase_licensefile = d.getVar('COREBASE') + "/LICENSE"
for url in lic_files.split():
try:
(type, host, path, user, pswd, parm) = bb.fetch.decodeurl(url)
@@ -601,6 +601,9 @@ python populate_lic_qa_checksum() {
package_qa_handle_error("license-checksum", pn + ":
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid file: " + srclicfile, d)
continue
+ if (srclicfile == corebase_licensefile):
+ bb.warn("${COREBASE}/LICENSE is not a valid license file, please
use '${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT' for a MIT License file in LIC_FILES_CHKSUM.
This will become an error in the future")
+
recipemd5 = parm.get('md5', '')
beginline, endline = 0, 0
if 'beginline' in parm:
--
2.7.5
--
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