[yocto] excluding the Proprietary source code from the archive

[Khem Raj]

On 6/8/18 2:57 AM, jan vermaete wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question about the licenses stuff of Yocto.  I hope this is the 
> correct place to ask.
> 
> I followed the instructions of the mega manual (chapter 7.32.3.1 
> Providing the Source Code).
> 
> Added in my local.conf:
>    INHERIT += "archiver"
>    ARCHIVER_MODE[src] = "original"
>    COPYLEFT_LICENSE_EXCLUDE="CLOSED Proprietary"
> 
> I have a recipe called x.bb <http://x.bb>, with 'LICENSE = "Proprietary"'
> 
> After a build of the image, there is the file 
> 'build/deploy/licenses/x/recipeinfo' which holds the correct license 
> 'LICENSE: Proprietary'
> 
> However, I still see the archive of the source code in 'build/deploy/source'
> 
> 
> PS: I have DEPLOY_DIR = "${TOPDIR}/deploy" in my local.conf file.  But 
> without, the result is the same.
> 

if you enable verbose output from bitbake it should print the reason for 
excluding/including a recipe into archive. Maybe that will give better 
hint on why it thinks it should include the package in source archive

> br
>