LICENSE: Clarify what is meant by 'metadata'
PATCH 1/1 LICENSE: Clarify what is meant by 'metadata'
The term metadata in the LICENSE text is unclear and recently garnered some questions at ELC, so clarify metadata to include bbclasses, which is and has been metadata as well as code.
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LICENSE +5 -3
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ meta/COPYING.MIT (MIT) meta-selftest/COPYING.MIT (MIT) meta-skeleton/COPYING.MIT (MIT) -All metadata is MIT licensed unless otherwise stated. Source code -included in tree for individual recipes is under the LICENSE stated in -the associated recipe (.bb file) unless otherwise stated. +All metadata files (including, but not limited to bb, bbappend, +bbclass, inc and conf files) are MIT licensed unless otherwise stated. +Source code included in tree for individual recipes is under the +LICENSE stated in the associated recipe (.bb file) unless otherwise +stated. License information for any other files is either explicitly stated or defaults to GPL version 2.
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Quoted 6 lines · Saul Wold
The term metadata in the LICENSE text is unclear and recently garnered some questions at ELC, so clarify metadata to include bbclasses, which is and has been metadata as well as code.
Signed-off-by Saul Wold <[email protected]>
This breaks other layers (including meta-intel and meta-qt), do you have corresponding patches?
Ross
Quoted 6 lines · Ross
Quoted 4 lines · Saul Wold
The term metadata in the LICENSE text is unclear and recently garnered some questions at ELC, so clarify metadata to include bbclasses, which is and has been metadata as well as code.
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Signed-off-by Saul Wold <[email protected]>This breaks other layers (including meta-intel and meta-qt), do you have corresponding patches?
Oh man, I did not consider recipes using the OE-Core LICENSE file as a LIC_CHKSUM_FILE, that's sort of wrong on almost all cases except maybe the build-appliance or some containers that also contain OE-Core meta- data.
Layers particularly should not use OE-Core's LICENSE, so fixes to layers will go first.
V2 coming when those are merged.
Sau!
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Ross