[yocto] Avoiding both GPLv3 and meta-gplv2 ?

[Anuj Mittal]

On 05/01/2018 06:58 PM, Irving ST wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> First time posting, apologies if I miss anything in the community guidelines.
> 
> I had some problems trying to make an image that contains no GPLv3
> (due to corporate requirement) nor old GPLv2 software in meta-gplv2
> (due to lack of support).
> 
> I tried getting a fresh checkout of poky and adding
> INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE in conf/local.conf , but I got the following
> error:
> 
> ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'make' (but
> /home/irving/srcgit/poky/meta/recipes-core/zlib/zlib_1.2.11.bb,
> /home/irving/srcgit/poky/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_1.0.2o.bb
> RDEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
> make was skipped: it has an incompatible license: GPLv3 & LGPLv2
> 
> I tried adding meta-gplv2 layer to bblayer.conf and the error
> disappears. I was expecting the license restriction to apply to the
> final image only, but my guess is I am also restricted from building
> the cross compilation tools (which seems weird to me).

You can grep the license.manifest in ./tmp/deploy/licenses to see what
is being included in the final image.

I think the poky core-image-minimal image can be built without
meta-gplv2 and non gplv3 components.

Thanks,
Anuj