Re: [OE-core] [poky-contrib][RFC PATCH 4/5] license.bbclass: Add functions to split and canonicalise license strings

["Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 17:55 +0100, Ida Delphine wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback. I will get rid of the logic to take care of 
> those licenses with "or-later" and move the functions to license.py. 
> Does this also mean I shouldn't try removing "WITH-Linux-syscall-note" 
> from the licences?

I think the idea of what you're looking at is to remove "noise" from the 
output and see if we can identify real licence issues. Removing the 
"XXX WITH-Linux-syscall-note" where XXX is removed is key to that but 
XXX must me removed too.

> The point of me doing that was for there to be more matches and the 
> number of warnings reduced.


> Also there is more license-related logic in package.bbclass. Will it 
> be okay if I move it as well to meta/lib/oe/license.py putting it 
> in functions?

Possibly, but please do it in a separate patch which we can evaluate 
on its own merit, I haven't looked at which code you mean so its hard 
to tell offhand.

Cheers,

Richard