[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm] [PATCH] imx-kobs: Update license checksum

Philip Craig phil at blackmoth.com.au
Wed Jan 15 19:00:23 PST 2014


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2014-01-15 12:47, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com
>>> <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Update license checksum to follow changes in OE-core
>>>
>>>     Signed-off-by: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com
>>> <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> To avoid using it to happen in future, please rework this as I did in:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-fsl-arm/commit/?id=a99e70cbb501f992abb8f80218fc5fb2a4fd6224
>>
>>
>> Not my place to make such a change - those are completely different
>> license files.  One refers to exactly GPL-2 while the other says that
>> the licence may be any of a set.
>
>
> The license, in the LICENSE field, is not changed and this checksum was just
> to allow the recipe to be parsed. It makes more sense to use the respective
> license file. The best fix is, in future, Freescale, include a proper
> license file on the release tarball of those packages but in meanwhile is
> the a good interim solution.

imx-kobs already has a COPYING file. The recipe should use that instead.


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