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Subject: Re: [PATCH] license.bbclass base.bbclass: support for 'or' operand in LICENSE and for SPDX license names
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On 01/10/2012 05:34 PM, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Andrei Gherzan<andrei@gherzan.ro>  wrote:
>> From: Andrei Gherzan<andrei.gherzan@windriver.com>
>>
>> A new function was defined in license.bbclass in order to correctly exclude packages where OE-Style licence naming
>> is used. In this way licenses as GPL-3, GPLv3, GPLv3.0 etc will be excluded from a non-GPLv3 build. This function
>> takes into consideration if 'or' operand is used.
>> The function defined in license.bbclass is called in base.bbclass where packages are excluded based on
>> INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE variable.
>>
>> [YOCTO #1884]
>> [YOCTO #1844]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrei Gherzan<andrei at gherzan.ro>
>
> Out of curiosity, why are we using regex for this when we already have
> license parsing in the oe.license module which can handle the OR case?

I'm using regex only for excluding '+' characters from LICENSE. The rest 
of the work is done in oe.license.
If X is defined as INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE, X+ should be exluded as well.