[yocto] Fwd: /usr/share/common-license package/recipeinfo contains GPLv3 info

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Thu May 23 16:55:53 PDT 2019



On 5/23/19 2:42 AM, virendra kumar thakur wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello team,
> 
> I am trying to build yocto image without GPLv3 package, I have added 
> below things in local.conf and enable meta-gplv2 layer.
> 
> INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE = "GPL-3.0 LGPL-3.0 AGPL-3. 0" in local.conf.

Can you try adding GPLv3+ to INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE and see if that helps ?

> 
> After verifying from package.manifest and license.manifest file in 
> build/tmp/deploy/license/ directory I observe that no GPLv3 package is 
> present in rootfs.
> 
> But I can see in 
> rootfs/usr/share/common-license/package/libgcrypt-lic/recipeinfo
> 
> LICENSE: GPLV2+ &LGPLV2.1+ &GPLV3+
> PR: r0
> PV : 1.8.4
> 
> Is present..
> 
> My doubt is why any GPLv3 is present in common-license directory?
> 
> From: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton at intel.com <mailto:ross.burton at intel.com>>
> To: virendra kumar thakur <coolveer07 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:coolveer07 at gmail.com>>
> Cc: Yocto-mailing-list <yocto at yoctoproject.org 
> <mailto:yocto at yoctoproject.org>>
> Subject: Re: [yocto] GPLv3 package present in rootfs
> 
> On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 06:26, virendra kumar thakur
> <coolveer07 at gmail.com <mailto:coolveer07 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> still some package gnutls, libidn2, libassuan, are added into rootfs.
> 
> Randomly picking libassuan:
> 
> LICENSE_${PN} = "LGPLv2.1+"
> 
> The library itself is LGPL-2.  Have you verified the *package*
> licenses for what is actually going into the image?
> 
> Ross
> 
> 
> 
> 


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