[poky] [PATCH 1/3] base.bbclass: enable INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE to match slight variations

Saul Wold saul.wold at intel.com
Fri Feb 25 13:31:37 PST 2011


On 02/25/2011 01:27 PM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 14:26 -0600, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> Only thing I would be concerned with in this patch is a license of "GPLv3 w/
>> exception"  (I'm not sure how we address that, but there are cases where things
>> are GPLv3, but the exception may allow someone to use the component where they
>> would not normally allow for GPLv3.)  I'm not exactly sure the best way to
>> handle this...
>
> Hmm, fair point - I hadn't thought of that.
>
> I can't think of a better way to do this that doesn't involve
> implementing a fragile test, in which case we'd probably best ignore
> this and patch three from this series.
>
I was also looking at this, and wondering if it was appropriate, so you 
only want me to pull patch 2 of this set?

Patch 3 is still sort of appropriate, that's what I set for my testing 
right now.  But as Mark points out it's far from perfect and right now I 
am having failures building without GPLv3!

Sau!

> Cheers,
> Joshua
>>
>> --Mark
>>
>> On 2/25/11 1:13 PM, Joshua Lock wrote:
>>> From: Joshua Lock<josh at linux.intel.com>
>>>
>>> Add a greedy any-character match to INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE so that we can match
>>> different permutations of that license, i.e. if INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE is set
>>> to GPLv3 we should also match GPLv3+
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Joshua Lock<josh at linux.intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>   meta/classes/base.bbclass |    9 ++++++++-
>>>   1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/meta/classes/base.bbclass b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
>>> index a674f52..3ff11d3 100644
>>> --- a/meta/classes/base.bbclass
>>> +++ b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
>>> @@ -345,7 +345,14 @@ python () {
>>>                   raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("incompatible with machine %s" % this_machine)
>>>
>>>
>>> -        dont_want_license = bb.data.getVar('INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE', d, 1)
>>> +        dont_want_license = bb.data.getVar('INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE', d, True)
>>> +        # If dont_want_license is set add a greedy any-character match
>>> +        # to it (if not already set) so that we can match permutations
>>> +        # of that license. i.e. if dont_want_license is set to GPLv3 we
>>> +        # also want to match GPLv3+
>>> +        if dont_want_license and not dont_want_license.endswith('.+'):
>>> +	    dont_want_license = dont_want_license + '.+'
>>> +
>>>           if dont_want_license and not pn.endswith("-native") and not pn.endswith("-cross") and not pn.endswith("-cross-initial") and not pn.endswith("-cross-intermediate"):
>>>               hosttools_whitelist = (bb.data.getVar('HOSTTOOLS_WHITELIST_%s' % dont_want_license, d, 1) or "").split()
>>>               lgplv2_whitelist = (bb.data.getVar('LGPLv2_WHITELIST_%s' % dont_want_license, d, 1) or "").split()
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