On Fri, 2022-02-04 at 10:05 +0100, Stefan Herbrechtsmeier wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> Am 03.02.2022 um 22:24 schrieb Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org:
> > On Thu, 2022-02-03 at 09:07 -0800, Saul Wold wrote:
> > > When a file can not be identified by checksum and they contain an SPDX
> > > License-Identifier tag, use it as the found license.
> > > 
> > > [YOCTO #14529]
> > > 
> > > Tested with LICENSE files that contain 1 or more SPDX-License-Identifier 
> > > tags
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <saul.w...@windriver.com>
> > > ---
> > >   scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py | 16 +++++++++++-----
> > >   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py 
> > > b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
> > > index 507a230511..9149c2d94f 100644
> > > --- a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
> > > +++ b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
> > > @@ -1221,14 +1221,20 @@ def guess_license(srctree, d):
> > >       for licfile in sorted(licfiles):
> > >           md5value = bb.utils.md5_file(licfile)
> > >           license = md5sums.get(md5value, None)
> > > +        license_list = []
> > >           if not license:
> > >               license, crunched_md5, lictext = crunch_license(licfile)
> > >               if lictext and not license:
> > > -                license = 'Unknown'
> > > -                logger.info("Please add the following line for '%s' to a 
> > > 'lib/recipetool/licenses.csv' " \
> > > -                    "and replace `Unknown` with the license:\n" \
> > > -                    "%s,Unknown" % (os.path.relpath(licfile, srctree), 
> > > md5value))
> > > -        if license:
> > > +                spdx_re = 
> > > re.compile('SPDX-License-Identifier:\s+([-A-Za-z\d. ]+)[ |\n|\r\n]*?')
> > > +                license_list = re.findall(spdx_re, "\n".join(lictext))
> > > +                if not license_list:
> > > +                    license_list.append('Unknown')
> > > +                    logger.info("Please add the following line for '%s' 
> > > to a 'lib/recipetool/licenses.csv' " \
> > > +                        "and replace `Unknown` with the license:\n" \
> > > +                        "%s,Unknown" % (os.path.relpath(licfile, 
> > > srctree), md5value))
> > > +        else:
> > > +            license_list.append(license)
> > > +        for license in license_list:
> > >               licenses.append((license, os.path.relpath(licfile, 
> > > srctree), md5value))
> > >   
> > >       # FIXME should we grab at least one source file with a license 
> > > header and add that too?
> > 
> > I think to close this bug the code may need to go one step further and
> > effectively grep over the source tree.
> 
> Please keep in mind that we need a full license text and not only the 
> license name for license compliance. The current function only search 
> for license files with license text.
> 
> > We'd probably want to list the value of any SPDX-License-Identifier: header
> > found in any of the source files for the user to then decide upon?
> 
> I think this is an other feature like a license checker because if you 
> have a SPDX-License-Identifier without a license text you have a license 
> violation.
> 
> This brings us to the problem that this code will interpret a file with 
> only a SPDX-License-Identifier as a license file with license text.

As I understand it the tool is there to help write a recipe so filling out
LICENSE and highlighting a missing full license text would be a valid approach
for the tool and helpful to the user?

It certainly isn't intended as full validation, just intended to assist the
creation of a recipe.

Cheers,

Richard






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