On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 10:48 AM Benjamin Robin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello Marta,
>
> On Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 9:58 AM, Marta Rybczynska wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 9:45 AM Benjamin Robin via
> lists.openembedded.org
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I have just a slight implementation "detail" if we are using BitBake
> > > fetcher. What is the license that we should use for the sources?
> > > How to declare that in the recipes?
> > >
> > > Because the license of the repositories:
> > >  - https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5 : Their is none
> > >  - https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds/tree/main/LICENSES
> > >    It looks like custom license.
>
> > The CVE project repo does not have a licence included, but it is covered
> by
> > https://www.cve.org/legal/termsofuse (the usage part). It is basically
> MIT.
> >
> > NVD has the specific,  licence, the one that is in the repo. A warning on
> > the
> > needed disclosure sentence in all documentation.
>
> So for you, it is fine to declare that the CVE databases are MIT?
>

CVE database is MIT
NVD (so also FKIE) is custom


>
>
> > AUTOREV isn't great here because it will re-fetch for each build. So if
> > you're
> > building multiple images or platforms (in CI or so), you will get
> > potentially different
> > results. cve-check has a set of variable to handle such use cases. You
> pin
> > to one specific release and do the whole checking with one single common
> > version.
>
> Yes, that is why I initially pushed to use my custom fetcher that is
> doing a git pull / shallow clone. With this fetcher I have a full control
> on the update period.
>
> But if we want to use BitBake fetcher, an user could pin to a specific
> version instead of using AUTOREV. But the user needs to to that manually.
>
>
I agree with Richard that using a git fetcher (or other existing fetcher)
is a better
idea than developing a custom fetcher.

Regards,
Marta
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