[meta-freescale] [PATCH] fsl-eula-unpack: deploy Freescale EULA

[Lauren Post]

The current license does that but it is not embedded into the older packages.  Current license evolved from the previous license.  We feel comfortable that users building legacy devices will be covered same as before.

The current patch assumes the license will checksum match the license in the packages.  We don't want to update legacy packages each time the license is updated.  We don't have bandwidth and is not required.  The license in legacy packages matches the license on freescale.com the content was originally distributed with.

Our licensing usage has evolved to a common license.  It will be changed often to add new 3rd parties to the Appendix.  That does not affect previous 3rd parties.   

Every package has the EULA in it so the original EULA stands.
If there is confusion we can create an SCR for the mx53 which is the one that uses proprietary amd gpu (it uses new license for multimedia and old license for vpu and gpu).

We also might have future files that do not require updates.  We provide an SCR that lists the version of license associated with each package.  We don't want to rebind every package each time license gets updated.

We understand everyone's concern but this solution is not the right one.  

If you want a disclaimer add in the setup-environment one that says the license in the package is the license that takes precedence.

Lauren


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Nelson [mailto:eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 11:46 AM
To: Otavio Salvador; Thornton Ann-RA43240; Post Lauren-RAA013
Cc: meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org; Stefan Christ
Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] [PATCH] fsl-eula-unpack: deploy Freescale EULA

Hi Ann and Lauren,

On 06/03/2015 09:15 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Ann Thornton 
> <Ann.Thornton at freescale.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Here is the problem:  The EULA is updated frequently with changes 
>> that really don't matter to existing packages.  New 3rd party 
>> requirements are added that apply to new packages, typos are 
>> occasionally fixed, and so on.
>> 
>> If this patch is limiting us to only one EULA in all packages, that 
>> means all of the older packages have to be updated with new EULAs and 
>> a new version number every few months.  That is just not going to 
>> happen.  Not to mention other groups that have older packages as 
>> well.  The core of the EULA has not changed and will not change (the 
>> legal department has promised us that) so we expect that future EULAs 
>> will be in line with the current ones.
>> 
>> It looks like Stefan is saying that the using LIC_FILES_CHKSUM_append 
>> will override the problem.  But we will need to put that in all the 
>> recipes so the end result will nullify this patch, I think.
> 
> Ann, we need to separate two issues here:
> 
> - technical - legal
> 

I think (Stefan, please confirm) that the reason for this patch has to do with the way that the EULAs are "accepted" by the user.

The current process involves an acknowledgement of a single "Freescale EULA" in the setup-environment script.

If there are a dozen Freescale licenses in various packages, do each of them need to be acked by the user before using them?

If so, can the Freescale legal folks put together an over-arching license that covers all components? It seems that the EULA is usually re-used and way broader than most of the patches (including Microsoft, SanDisk, CSR and Global Locate, which likely don't have rights in most of the covered components).

Please advise,


Eric