Re: [meta-rockchip][PATCH v2 0/3] rkbin: convert LICENSE to SPDX expressions

[Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>]

On Thu 2026-08-06 @ 09:42:08 PM, sputnik@on-the-web.ch wrote:
> From: Martin Herren <sputnik@on-the-web.ch>
> 
> Hej,
> 
> This series fixes the legacy/CLOSED LICENSE warnings coming from the
> rkbin recipes by OE-Core commit e9d424738d6f ("classes/conf/lib: Parse
> LICENSE as SPDX Expression"):
> 
>   https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=e9d424738d6f8411d4e745b7d872a00e10bb14ac
> 
> Patches 1 and 2 switch the rkbin family (rockchip-rkbin.inc, used by
> -ddr, -optee-os and -tf-a) and its native variant from "Proprietary" to
> a recipe-specific LicenseRef-Rockchip-rkbin backed by NO_GENERIC_LICENSE,
> so the SPDX manifest references the real Rockchip LICENSE rather than
> the generic one-line stub.
> 
> Patch 3 switches rk3308-rkbin from "CLOSED" to
> "LicenseRef-rk3308-rkbin-CLOSED" + NO_GENERIC_LICENSE[...]=README.
> 
> rk3308-rkbin pins an older rkbin revision whose tree ships no LICENSE
> file, which is why it used CLOSED and only pointed to the README.
> 
> A potential cleaner fix could be to reuse the current repo's LICENSE.
> The rk3308-rkbin S
> RCREV dates back to 2019-10-15 while the initial
> LICENSE was only added 2023-07-26, which beside a typo and a
> trailing newline is identical to the one used for the other rkbins
> (updated 2024-10-17).
> So that's an almost 4 year gap between the used SRCREV and where the
> LICENSE was introduced.
> So this would probably require legal validation from Rockchip's side
> whether it applies retroactively as well.
> This option would require adding a static LICENSE file to the recipe.
> 
> What changed since v1:
> - Added Reviewed-by tag
> - Added AI-Generated tag
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Martin
> 
> Martin Herren (3):
>   bsp: rkbin: use SPDX LicenseRef for Rockchip proprietary firmware
>   bsp: rkbin-native: use SPDX LicenseRef for Rockchip proprietary
>     firmware
>   bsp: rkbin: rk3308-rkbin: replace deprecated CLOSED license with a
>     LicenseRef
> 
>  recipes-bsp/rkbin/rk3308-rkbin_git.bb          | 3 ++-
>  recipes-bsp/rkbin/rockchip-rkbin-native_git.bb | 3 ++-
>  recipes-bsp/rkbin/rockchip-rkbin.inc         
>   | 3 ++-
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Applied to meta-rockchip, master branch.
Thanks!