[yocto] Automated license incompatibility checks

[Boto, Erik (Pelagicore)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Kanavin [mailto:alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com]
> Sent: den 19 januari 2018 10:26
> To: Boto, Erik (Pelagicore) <erik.boto at pelagicore.com>;
> yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Cc: Clemens.Lang at bmw-carit.de
> Subject: Re: [yocto] Automated license incompatibility checks
> 
> 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.htm
> > l
> >
> > 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

Yes, I included Clemens on CC but wanted to keep the discussion public so that it can benefit others as well.

Cheers,
Erik