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 1L555r-000271-DF for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:05:11 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L552y-0007tJ-9x for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:02:12 +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 21:02:12 +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 21:02:12 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:02:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200811252113.50363.openembedded@haerwu.biz> 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: <200811252113.50363.openembedded@haerwu.biz> 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 21:05:11 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 25-11-08 21:13, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > Tuesday 25 of November 2008 20:26:24 Koen Kooi napisał(a): >> Back to the point: what do you think of allowing URLs in the LICENSE >> field? > > Show me code which will make use of it first? Why not add license to > SRC_URI? At this point it's not about code, it's about being able to show a legal department that the license is referenced in the package. How would a non-OE user know that http://openembedded.org/dl/ICA2.txt is the license? Shipping the license itself in the packages would be better, but that will need a lot of thought, since we can't have a 1000 packages shipping /usr/share/licenses/GPLv2, and *all* packages from a recipe need a license, even -doc, -dev -and -dbg. The concrete problem I have is that I have a bunch of licenses that don't have a name (not even inside the company that wrote them), so my recipes have things like LICENSE = "proprietary binary" LICENSE = "evil binary" So as short term solution I'd like to be able to point to a url for the 'licenses without a proper name' and for the long term have a proper, package format independant solution. regards, Koen