[yocto] Automated license incompatibility checks

Alexander Kanavin alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com
Fri Jan 19 01:25:42 PST 2018


On 01/19/2018 07:21 AM, Boto, Erik (Pelagicore) wrote:
> I was looking for a way to analyze in more detail how packages of different licenses was used in an image, and stumbled upon this old mail-thread: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2015-January/023307.html
> 
> My end goal is pretty much the same as Clemens, that I want to be able to have checks/rules for which licenses are ok to have when linking dynamically/statically to other libraries. Does anyone know if this work ever got published somewhere? It seems like a very nice functionality to have.

You probably need to ask this directly from Clemens. Even if the code is 
gone, or BMW does not want to make it public :), it shouldn't be that 
hard to re-implement it from the description.

Alex



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