[OE-core] [PATCH] classes/license: copy licenses even if there are no checksummed files

[Burton, Ross]

On 2 November 2016 at 18:37, Beth 'pidge' Flanagan <pidge at toganlabs.com>
wrote:

> It's been a bit since I've looked at license.bbclass, but I guess my
> question here is this seems to take out all notification that a recipe
> doesn't have a LIC_FILES_CHKSUM, correct?
>
> I'd rather we maybe kept the note in and maybe whitelisted recipes that
> did interesting things so that didn't appear than just ignored when a
> recipe was missing it.
>
> Because if we don't at least bb.note it, I can see people just ignoring
> it entirely (which would be bad in a lot of ways)
>

No, this check was belt-and-braces (the other check is a bb.error()).  Also
bb.note() from tasks don't appear in the user-visible log by default,
you've got to dig into the task log to see them which is buried in the work
directories.

Ross
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