Re: using third party library

[Patrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz>]

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On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 08:32:00PM +0000, Vijay Khemka wrote:
> There is no recipe available. It is just a github project and either we can add as a SRC_URI+ into our recipe or write a new recipe to build a package. This is header only library, all sources are in header file itself. So we should be able to just add as SRC_URI. I have no idea about how licensing will work here.
> 

I don't think you should add an additional SRC_URI onto your package in
order to get this dependency even though it is header-only.  There are
other header-only repositories that have recipes, such as nlohmann-json.

If you were to add this as an SRC_URI it would complicate the LICENSE
setting in your recipe because your code is Apache but you're also
including an MIT component.  It is clearer to simply have another recipe
that is MIT licensed, as appropriate.

The recommendation that "this belongs in openembedded" means we probably
shouldn't be carrying around the recipe for it ourselves since it has
potentially wider applicability than OpenBMC.  We [you] can contribute
the recipe upstream to OE and we'll get it indirectly that way.  We
similarlly did this for 'libmimetic' recently.

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Patrick Williams

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