[yocto] do all recipes really need LIC_FILES_CHKSUM?

[Gary Thomas]

On 2011-11-07 09:01, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>    current poky ref manual seems pretty adamant about need for
> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM:
>
> "Note that this variable is mandatory for all recipes, unless the
> LICENSE variable is set to "CLOSED".
>
> but there's at least one counter-example,
> meta-demoapps/recipes-graphics/pong-clock/pong-clock_1.0.bb:
>
> =====
>
> DESCRIPTION = "A clock combined with a game of pong"
> LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
> DEPENDS = "virtual/libx11 xdmcp xau"
>
> SRC_URI = "file://pong-clock-no-flicker.c"
>
> S = "${WORKDIR}"
>
> do_compile () {
>          ${CC} -o pong-clock pong-clock-no-flicker.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs x11 xau xdmcp`
> }
>
> do_install () {
>          install -d ${D}${bindir}
>          install -m 0755 pong-clock ${D}${bindir}
> }
>
> =====
>
> so what's the story here?

I thought I saw an email saying that meta-demoapps was deprecated?
This recipe certainly should not build as is.

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