On Fri, 2022-02-18 at 14:13 +0000, Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org wrote: > On Thu, 2022-02-17 at 15:01 -0800, Saul Wold wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > [0] https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-devel/message/95166 > > We need to be mindful that we need to resolve this to unblock the other > language > changes and feature creep here is potentially problematic. I do think it is > worth trying to improve things rather than blindly allowing the horrible > syntax > in this variable to continue though. > > The test case we have for this currently is: > > WHITELIST_GPL-3.0:pn-core-image-minimal = "bash" > > so I'd wondered about an alternative of: > > INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE_EXCEPTIONS:pn-core-image-minimal = "bash:GPL-3.0" > > which matches the current functionality, removes the issue that the name of > the > variable is unknown without iterating every possible license name and makes it > clear where it is applying to. > > I don't really like INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE_ALLOWED_RECIPES since: > > a) it is long > b) it refers to recipes when it works against packages
Just as a warning, the code is actually confused. The base.bbclass code assumes it is a recipe name, the license_image code assumes it is a package name. All the more reason to come up with a standard and resolve this. My proposal stands but we need to decide if it is a recipe or package name that is listed (or both?). Cheers, Richard
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