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

[Diego]

In data mercoledì 12 giugno 2013 14:17:05, Flanagan, Elizabeth ha scritto:
> 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_Grou
> >> > p#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
> 

Hi Elizabeth,

I've tried posting the patch here:
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/poky/2013-June/009008.html

But I did not receive a reply. Maybe I did something wrong? Should the patch 
go to poky ml or to openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org ?

Thanks,
Diego