You should really try per-image INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE :) Maintaining
those whitelists/excludes is awkward, as developers constantly want
more of them.

Alex

On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 at 09:00, Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rap...@bmw.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 04:20:01PM -0800, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 3:01 PM Saul Wold <saul.w...@windriver.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > I am working on a proposal to re-write how INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSES is used
> > > and processed to possibly include a COMPATIBLE_LICENSES variable as
> > > well, see PeterK's email [0]
> > >
> > > I am trying to determine the usage of WHITELIST_<license> which would be
> > > used to override a license that might be listed in INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSES
> > > variable.
> > >
> > > Randy and I have done a quick and dirty survey of a 100 or so layers
> > > (thanks Randy) and could not find any real usage other than what's
> > > currently in OE-Core for WHITELIST_GPL-3.0.
> > >
> > > If you are using WHITELIST_<license>, please let me reply with your usage.
> >
> > Common case seems to be allowing gdb in debug builds of distros which
> > are otherwise free of GPLv3 etc, e.g.
> >
> >   
> > https://github.com/MentorEmbedded/meta-mentor/blob/master/meta-mel/conf/distro/include/gdbserver-gplv3.inc
> >   https://github.com/lgirdk/meta-mng/blob/ofw-2112.6/conf/distro/mng.conf
>
> Exactly, I'm using this in a lot of projects.
>
> Basically distro config has:
>
> INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE_append += " GPLv3 GPLv3+ LGPLv3 LGPLv3+"
>
> and then various GPLv3 tools are allowed in build but not allowed to be
> part of images:
>
> WHITELIST_GPL-3.0 += "binutils"
> PACKAGE_EXCLUDE += "binutils-dbg binutils-staticdev binutils-dev binutils-doc 
> binutils-locale libbfd binutils"
>
> WHITELIST_GPL-3.0 += "gdb"
> PACKAGE_EXCLUDE += "gdb-sdktests-dbg gdb-sdktests gdbserver gdb-dbg 
> gdb-staticdev gdb-dev gdb-doc gdb-locale gdb"
>
> WHITELIST_GPL-3.0 += "rsync"
> PACKAGE_EXCLUDE += "rsync-dbg rsync-staticdev rsync-dev rsync-doc 
> rsync-locale rsync"
>
> etc etc.
>
> Use case is that developers can install additional GPLv3 licensed tooling if 
> they
> need to debug something, but product images don't include them by default.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Mikko
> 
>
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