From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L54kr-0001eW-Il for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:43:29 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L54hx-000792-FZ for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:40:29 +0000 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:40:29 +0000 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:40:29 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:40:21 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1227642854.5377.17.camel@dax.rpnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081116 Shredder/3.0b1pre In-Reply-To: <1227642854.5377.17.camel@dax.rpnet.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: [RFC] LICENSE fields and packages X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:43:30 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 25-11-08 20:54, Richard Purdie wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 20:26 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: >> Jason Kridner pointed out that we don't actually put the license in the >> resulting packages, making it hard for finding the license if you only >> have a bunch or packages. >> >> http://cgit.openembedded.net/cgit.cgi?url=openembedded/commit/&id=e35d1ffad1553f259b084578992f15d10f590f98 >> >> Now the RFC part: >> >> Allow URLs in the LICENSE field for lesser know licenses and/or >> click-through licenses. >> >> Related to that: a class that would take a text file and generate a >> preinsts that shows the textfile and prompts to accept it (or not) would >> be awesome as well. >> >> Back to the point: what do you think of allowing URLs in the LICENSE field? > > I don't like the idea of urls in the field itself. I would however love > to see a class file with a list of valid field entries and corresponding > urls to the appropriate licence along with other information like > distributability. In due course I'd like to see that being mandatory for > new .bb files. We can start by having insane.bbclass disallowing "Unknown" as license, which seems to be the default license in OE. regards, Koen