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On 26-11-08 12:31, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 12:21 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> ${PN}-license package on which all entries from PACKAGES will RDEPEND?
>> Any objections to doing it this way till we have a proper bbclass?
>
> I think this is a fine idea.  It should be a DISTRO opt-in choice, of
> course, but I can't see any reason not to provide the facility.

My idea was to make it opt-in on a per package basis since DISTROs can 
include base-files-doc for the most commit licenses (GPL, MIT, BSD, etc).

regards,

Koen