[PATCH] LICENSE: Clarify what is meant by 'metadata'

[PATCH] LICENSE: Clarify what is meant by 'metadata'

[Saul Wold]

The term metadata in the LICENSE text is unclear and recently
garnered some questions at ELC, so clarify metadata to include
bbclasses, which is and has been metadata as well as code.

Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
---
 LICENSE | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 21fa6e6..9783ee5 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ meta/COPYING.MIT (MIT)
 meta-selftest/COPYING.MIT (MIT)
 meta-skeleton/COPYING.MIT (MIT)
 
-All metadata is MIT licensed unless otherwise stated. Source code
-included in tree for individual recipes is under the LICENSE stated in
-the associated recipe (.bb file) unless otherwise stated.
+All metadata files (including, but not limited to bb, bbappend,
+bbclass, inc and conf files) are MIT licensed unless otherwise stated.
+Source code included in tree for individual recipes is under the
+LICENSE stated in the associated recipe (.bb file) unless otherwise
+stated.
 
 License information for any other files is either explicitly stated 
 or defaults to GPL version 2.
-- 
2.7.4

Re: [PATCH] LICENSE: Clarify what is meant by 'metadata'

[Burton, Ross]

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On 27 February 2017 at 16:24, Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> The term metadata in the LICENSE text is unclear and recently
> garnered some questions at ELC, so clarify metadata to include
> bbclasses, which is and has been metadata as well as code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
>

This breaks other layers (including meta-intel and meta-qt), do you have
corresponding patches?

Ross

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Re: [PATCH] LICENSE: Clarify what is meant by 'metadata'

[Saul Wold]

On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 20:59 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 27 February 2017 at 16:24, Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > The term metadata in the LICENSE text is unclear and recently
> > garnered some questions at ELC, so clarify metadata to include
> > bbclasses, which is and has been metadata as well as code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
> > 
> 
> This breaks other layers (including meta-intel and meta-qt), do you
> have corresponding patches?
> 
Oh man, I did not consider recipes using the OE-Core LICENSE file as a
LIC_CHKSUM_FILE, that's sort of wrong on almost all cases except maybe
the build-appliance or some containers that also contain OE-Core meta-
data.

Layers particularly should not use OE-Core's LICENSE, so fixes to
layers will go first.

V2 coming when those are merged.

Sau!

> Ross