[meta-freescale] [fsl-community-bsp-base][PATCH v2] setup-environment: Update pre-EULA language to support older licenses.

[Daiane Angolini]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Lauren Post <lauren.post at freescale.com> wrote:
> Some legacy packages will contain older versions of licenses.   This language
> explains that the conflict in license should use the license in package.
>
> V2 - format to 80 characters per line
>
> Signed-off-by: Lauren Post <lauren.post at freescale.com>
> ---
>  setup-environment |    7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/setup-environment b/setup-environment
> index 7034cc5..e8cd216 100755
> --- a/setup-environment
> +++ b/setup-environment
> @@ -186,9 +186,10 @@ fi
>  if [ "$EULA" = "ask" ]; then
>      cat <<EOF
>
> -Some BSPs depend on libraries and packages which are covered by Freescale's
> -End User License Agreement (EULA). To have the right to use these binaries in
> -your images, you need to read and accept the following...
> +All software is subject to agreement to, and compliance with, Freescale's End

What do you mean by "All software"?

In my point of view, if the EULA agreement remains the same we have
today, and the only change is the text shown during first
setup-environment, when you say "All software" you mean all software
provided by yocto/oe-core/open-embedded/poky/external layer/ and not
all software from freescale.

Even if we think about all software provided by Freescale, there are
still packages under GPLv2 licensing with no need of EULA agreement.

I really prefer to have one EULA(=license) for each package. And I
really prefer to drop the need of the agreement at the
setup-environment.

It would be perfect if we could use the commercially licensing
mechanism we already have with yocto
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#enabling-commercially-licensed-recipes

So one must only accept the licenses (EULAs) they are really going to
use in end-product.

I think changing the text and reverting the patch is still not enough.
It does not fix the problem pointed/highlighted by Stefan and does not
include a multi-EULA mechanism.


Daiane

> +User License Agreement. To have the right to use these binaries in your images,
> +you must read and accept the following terms.  If there are conflicting terms
> +embedded in the software, the terms embedded in the Software will control.
>
>  EOF
>
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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