Re: Recipes erroneously marked as "commercial"?

[Sean Hudson <sean_hudson@mentor.com>]

On 05/06/2014 03:00 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> So, long time ago we had a short list of "commercial" packages in a global 
> variable COMMERCIAL_LICENSE:
>
> COMMERCIAL_LICENSE ?= "lame gst-fluendo-mp3 libmad mpeg2dec ffmpeg qmmp"
>
> Then, at some point, the packages that depend on commercial ones were added to 
> the list, to allow wold builds to be successful:
>
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=c69453fe94a649c518b0e6d79616f05579b864ce
>
> So, the list was appended with this:
>
> COMMERCIAL_LICENSE_DEPENDEES ?= "gst-plugins-ugly libomxil gst-openmax"
>
> Then, later on, the feature was changed from a global list to a per-recipe 
> flags:
>
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=a2760661b8c7a4a1b6f2e556853b3a9ae38cbcb5
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=43410523a07d9eb52a7d57ae3dc1cc320cbbc6f9
>
> And all those recipes got marked with LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial" 
> automatically, even if they are not really commercial.
>
> The question is - should we clean those up now? I can send a quick patch, if 
> my understanding above is correct.
>
I encountered this issue recently and raised it in IRC.  As an
interested party, I'd love to see these updated.

  (Thanks Denys for sending it to the list so quickly.)