[OE-core] [PATCH] LICENSE: Clarify what is meant by 'metadata'

Saul Wold sgw at linux.intel.com
Tue Feb 28 15:13:26 UTC 2017


On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 20:59 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 27 February 2017 at 16:24, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > 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 <sgw at linux.intel.com>
> > 
> 
> 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!

> Ross



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