On Monday 20 April 2015 07:33:34 Huang, Jie wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paul Eggleton [mailto:paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com] > > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 7:02 PM > > To: Huang, Jie (Jackie) > > Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > > Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] linux-firmware: fix the mess of > > licenses > > > > Hi Jackie, > > > > On Monday 13 April 2015 10:17:19 jackie.hu...@windriver.com wrote: > > > From: Jackie Huang <jackie.hu...@windriver.com> > > > > > > linux-firmware includes many firmwares and each firmware has their own > > > license, previously the LICENSE is set to "Proprietary" and some > > > firmware is split out to separate package such as > > > linux-firmware-radeon and LICENSE_linux-firmware-radeon is set to > > > "Firmware-radeon", but there is no license file in the common-licenses, > > > so we got a lot warnings> > > like: > > > WARNING: The license listed Firmware-radeon was not in the licenses > > > collected for linux-firmware > > > > > > These include adding the missing license files and re-orgnize the > > > codes to fix the warnings and avoid the mess. > > > > So doing this cleanup is good, thanks; but I was wondering if we needed an > > alternative approach for linux-firmware. Most of the licenses in it > > aren't in any way common, and new ones will be added from time to time, > > requiring us to not only update the recipe (probably unavoidable) but > > also add the licenses to the common license directory. Is there any way > > we could make it so we at least only have to update the recipe and > > dispense with the need to add a bunch of common license files that are > > only applicable to linux-firmware? > > Maybe we can keep those linux-firmware licenses in the recipe directory > instead of COMMON_LICENSE_DIR and add LICENSE_PATH += "${COREBASE}/meta/ > recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/files"?
Could we go one step further and copy the license files from the fetched source rather than having to add them to the recipe? Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
