Including license metadata in target package

Including license metadata in target package

[Martin Jansa]

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Hi,

we'll have to provide some proprietary packages for our feed/images and
because of that we're thinking about adding functionality to package
LICENSE files (referenced by LIC_FILES_CHKSUM) to PN (something like 
${datadir}/licenses/${PN}/file), probably reusing some code from 
license.bbclass

Does something like this already exist somewhere or does it look
usefull for someone else too, so it could be integrated into
license.bbclass and controlled by some variable (per package 
or by distro config)?

Cheers,

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com

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Re: Including license metadata in target package

[Eric Bénard]

Hi Martin,

Le Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:33:04 +0100,
Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com> a écrit :
> we'll have to provide some proprietary packages for our feed/images and
> because of that we're thinking about adding functionality to package
> LICENSE files (referenced by LIC_FILES_CHKSUM) to PN (something like 
> ${datadir}/licenses/${PN}/file), probably reusing some code from 
> license.bbclass
> 
> Does something like this already exist somewhere or does it look
> usefull for someone else too, so it could be integrated into
> license.bbclass and controlled by some variable (per package 
> or by distro config)?
> 
IIRC with these settings you will get the license in the image
COPY_LIC_MANIFEST = "1"
COPY_LIC_DIRS = "1"
INHERIT += "copyleft_compliance"
so maybe you can add the capability to add the license to each package
starting from here.

Eric