[yocto] How to deal with non-standard license.

[Flanagan, Elizabeth]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Diego <diego.ml at zoho.com> wrote:
> In data martedì 11 giugno 2013 15:10:42, Flanagan, Elizabeth ha scritto:
>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Diego <diego.ml at zoho.com> wrote:
>> > Hi everybody,
>> >
>> > I have written a recipe which I'd like to contribute for glmark2:
>> > https://launchpad.net/glmark2
>> >
>> > The last thing that puzzles me before submitting it is that it's partly
>> > GPL3+, and partly under this license:
>> > https://github.com/rafalmiel/glmark2-wl/blob/master/COPYING.SGI
>> > which is not in this list:
>> > https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/License_Infrastructure_Interest_Group#L
>> > icenses Is there any way to deal with that license? What should I put in
>> > the LICENSE field in my recipe?
>>
>> So, you will need to add a custom license or submit a patch OE-Core to
>> add that license. Where are you contributing this to?
>>
>> If it's to a layer, you'll want to add the license to a custom license
>> path. You'll want that file to be unique and descriptive. Please make
>> sure the license filename has a version in the file name. eg SGI-1.
>> Within the layer you'll make a directory (in this example I use
>> custom-licenses), add the license text to a file named SGI-1, then add
>> this to your layer.conf:
>>
>> LICENSE_PATH += "${LAYERDIR}/custom-licenses"
>> SPDXLICENSEMAP[SGIv1] = "SGI-1"
>>
>> That should get you what you want.
>
> Hi Elizabeth,
>
> I'm trying to integrate glmark2 into openembedded (meta-oe layer). I know this
> is not the right mailing list for that task, but I'm still on the license
> problem.
>

Ah, ok. In that case, ignore what I just said and patch oe-core's
files/common-licenses with the SGI license and
files/conf/licenses.conf with:

SPDXLICENSEMAP[SGIv1] = "SGI-1"
SRC_DISTRIBUTE_LICENSES += "SGI-1"

That's the right way to do this, IMHO

> I've tried to do as you suggested, but I'm getting:
> WARNING: glmark2: No generic license file exists for: SGI-1 in any provider
> Paul suggested:
> LICENSE = "GPLv3+ & SGI-1"
> I've tried also:
> LICENSE = "GPLv3+ & SGIv1"
> but I'm still getting the same error message (obviously with "SGIv1" instead).
>
> I'm attaching the full patch for you to review if I'm doing something wrong.
>
> Thank you for any hint you might give me,
> Diego

-b

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Elizabeth Flanagan
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