[poky-contrib][RFC PATCH 0/5] Suggestions for improvements?

["Meh Mbeh Ida Delphine" <idadelm@gmail.com>]

Hello everyone,

The following patchset is aimed at improving the Yocto Project license tracing.

Initially, after a build I will come across 130 license warnings with some false positives. I got rid of these by replacing "or-later" with "+" for source licenses (computedpkglics) and also passing the recipe license through canonical_license of license.py(). As a result, some of the licenses will match during comparism hence some warnings eliminate.

Though some false positive warnings were eliminated, lots of warnings were ouputed as a result of several source licenses having "WITH Linux-syscall-note". With the help of a variable being set in local.conf, one can chooses whether or not to get lid of the "WITH Linux-syscall-note" string from the source licenses. Just by doing this, several warnings are dropped and now left with 118.

I later on added some logic depending on "source_spdx_license" variable whether or not for the user to allow the warnings being outputed during the build. It reduces the extra processing and reduces time if the user chooses not to display warnings. It uses bb.utils.contains() to find out if that particular vaiable is present. Also, I added package_qa_handle_error() to allow the user decide whether they want the issues treated as warnings, errors or not at all.

Some of the license-related logic I added to take care of splitting recipe licences before canonicalizing, getting rid of "or-later" warnings, I moved it to license.bbclass and put it in functions. I also plan on fixing the variable naming since some have underscores whereas others do not have. However, I will love to move more license logic in package.bbclass to license.bbclass but I need help with the right way to go about it. Also, general suggestions on any improvements to this are highly welcomed.

Cheers,
Ida.

Ida Delphine (5):
  package: Remove false positive lic warnings
  package: Remove false positive lic warnings
  package: Remove false positive lic warnings
  license.bbclass: Add functions to split and canonicalise license
    strings
  package.bbclass: Remove false positive license warnings

 meta/classes/license.bbclass |  27 ++++++++
 meta/classes/package.bbclass | 127 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
 2 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

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