Package License Metadata for Tooling

2021-06-21 Thread Andreas Cord-Landwehr
Hi, yesterday morning Helio and me had an interesting discussion about metadata for license check tooling. There are a few different use cases: - Helio needs those for his FOSS license tooling - I would really like to improve the generation of Yocto license metadata, which we currently have to k

Re: Package License Metadata for Tooling

2021-06-22 Thread Andreas Cord-Landwehr
Hi, here is a short wrap-up of our today's BoF (activate participants*: Helio, Volker, Johan, me) The whole topic about license checking can be grouped into three areas: 1. Correct statements of copyright & license information in source files - we think that we are on track here with our REUSE/SP

Re: Package License Metadata for Tooling

2021-07-06 Thread Helio Chissini de Castro
Hello all I give some time to make a good overview over our current state. Let's tackle the issues first. The SPDX definition file over our metadata is possible, but not in the way we expect. There's no formal way to declare "subpackages" per se, like a source that produces several targets. The n