[OE-core] [PATCH 1/5] base.bbclass: add support for LICENSE_FLAGS

[Saul Wold]

On 01/09/2012 04:13 PM, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 16:01 -0800, Saul Wold wrote:
>> On 01/06/2012 09:13 PM, Tom Zanussi wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 21:10 -0800, Saul Wold wrote:
>>>> On 01/06/2012 06:34 PM, tom.zanussi at intel.com wrote:
>>>>> From: Tom Zanussi<tom.zanussi at intel.com>

<SNIP>

>>>>
>> With all the discussion about License related stuff on the list and IRC,
>> I think we should be creating a bbclass to define and hold these flags.
>>    Then there is just a call from base.bbclass into check_license_flags
>> and return True/False for the skip_package().
>>
>
> So move this code into a separate .bbclass, ok.
>
Move this code the license.bbclass or meta/lib/oe/licensee.py as 
appropriate.

>> And based on a comment from Chris L. on the IRC, will this handle
>> package level LICENSE_FLAGS, this is recipe level currently, correct?
>>
>
> Right.
>
>> It could be you have some recipe with multiple binaries (for example)
>> some are OK and some are not and they are packaged separately. Can the
>> LICENSE_FLAGS handle this?
>>
>
> No, I don't think so, there's just the per-recipe LICENSE_FLAGS.  How
> would that be expanded to per-package?
>
I verified with Richard, I thought we could do per-package, we can not 
currently, so LICENSE_FLAGS will be per-recipe now.

Possibly change in the future would be per-package.

Thanks for your work on this, I you have had to do some reworks, we are 
just trying to get it right.

Sau!

> Tom
>
>> Sau!
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