Re: [PATCH 0/5] license.bbclass parsing changes and common-license additions

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 16:30 -0700, Elizabeth Flanagan wrote:
> This pull request is a consolidated pull of some changes to the license.bbclass
> license parsing, some cleanup of existing licenses, and some additions to/
> modifications of various licenses kept in meta/files/common-licenses.
> 
> I've modified the common-licenses by adding licenses from the Software Package
> and Data Exchange group/OSI and using their naming convention for internal
> parsing within license.bbclass.
> 
> Licenses were retrieved from http://spdx.org/licenses/ or
> in cases where text of the license was missing:
> http://opensource.linux-mirror.org/licenses/
> 
> I've also modified some recipe's LICENSE field, either because the field was
> unparsable or the LICENSE was factually incorrect. This was not an entire audit
> of every LICENSE field but there were some errors that were obvious.
> 
> And lastly, using python abstract syntax trees as a parser and an ast visitor
> class, I've begun the first steps to being able to put some sanity to license
> selection.
> 
> One note. License modifiers have traditionally been limited to the "or greater"
> modifier "+". I've added another modifier "with exceptions" for licenses that
> have no generic ie common-licenses/GPL-2,0-with-GCC-exception
> 
> The modifiers are ignored for now, but I'll be looking at the logic for them
> next.
> 
> One side note. The listserve seems to limit mail size, so some of these PATCH
> requests may get slammed to /dev/null.
> 
> The following changes since commit 5d56586a00350f2ec90a7143182a3f1294fb4c73:
> 
>    binutils: Add missing dependency on zlib-native (2011-05-25 23:53:47 +0100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
>    git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib eflanagan/common-licenses
>    http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=eflanagan/common-licenses
> 
> Beth Flanagan (5):
>    common-licenses: Adding new licenses and renaming
>    License Field Cleanup: Non-standard field names

I took these two big ones before anything changed and we started seeing
rejects.

>    license.bbclass: Sane Parsing of licenses
>    license.bbclass: Fixing X-MIT SPDX license mapping
>    license.bbclass: Fixing LICENSE modifiers.

For these, Josh spotted some debug left in and I think you can squash
these into one commit.

Cheers,

Richard