u-boot 2013.10 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid file

u-boot 2013.10 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid file

[Robert Berger]

Hi,

I try to build instead of u-boot v2013.07 [1] the latest and greatest
released version i.e. v2013.10[2].

... which does not build because LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid
file ...

... and yes it does, since the COPYING file is gone ...

The licencense info is contained in the source code itself as
SPDX-License-Identifiers.

How do I get it to build?

Regards,

Robert

[1]
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=tree;h=63e74bc767dda75feff521c40b779018397fe1e7;hb=62c175fbb8a0f9a926c88294ea9f7e88eb898f6c

[2]
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=tree;h=b6756a15fd1e165107adf57e7c4a393f7dbcba38;hb=183acb700378a8cfc5d50a01a65de93fb2c24586..."In
C++ it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow
off your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup

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Re: u-boot 2013.10 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid file

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Robert,

On Monday 23 December 2013 22:47:00 Robert Berger wrote:
> I try to build instead of u-boot v2013.07 [1] the latest and greatest
> released version i.e. v2013.10[2].
> 
> ... which does not build because LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid
> file ...
> 
> ... and yes it does, since the COPYING file is gone ...
> 
> The licencense info is contained in the source code itself as
> SPDX-License-Identifiers.

Hmm, I'm not sure upstream should really have removed it, but I guess it's up 
to them...
 
> How do I get it to build?

In the absence of any other license statement, you'd have to point to one or 
more of the source files and use beginline and endline to select just the part 
of the header specifying the license.

Cheers,
Paul

-- 

Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: u-boot 2013.10 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid file

[Robert Berger]

Hi Paul,

On 12/23/2013 10:56 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>  
>> How do I get it to build?
> 
> In the absence of any other license statement, you'd have to point to one or 
> more of the source files and use beginline and endline to select just the part 
> of the header specifying the license.

Thanks!

This might be tricky to know upfront in same cases and would in worst
case require different recipes with different license info since it
depends on what configuration you build for, or which files are being
included.

A mechanism to extract the relevant info from the executable is most
likely more accurate.

But I guess not we have a chicken and egg problem ;)

> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 

Regards,

Robert

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Re: u-boot 2013.10 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid file

[Stefan Herbrechtsmeier]

Am 23.12.2013 21:56, schrieb Paul Eggleton:
> Hi Robert,
>
> On Monday 23 December 2013 22:47:00 Robert Berger wrote:
>> I try to build instead of u-boot v2013.07 [1] the latest and greatest
>> released version i.e. v2013.10[2].
>>
>> ... which does not build because LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid
>> file ...
>>
>> ... and yes it does, since the COPYING file is gone ...
>>
>> The licencense info is contained in the source code itself as
>> SPDX-License-Identifiers.
> Hmm, I'm not sure upstream should really have removed it, but I guess it's up
> to them...
The project switch to the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) and move 
the license information in a Licenses directory.