Re: [meta-oe][PATCH] ttf-inconsolata: fix license name

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:00:55AM +0100, Paul Barker wrote:
> On 23 April 2013 09:55, Paul Barker <paul@paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
> > We have "SIL Open Font License" 1.1 in common-licenses as OFL-1.1.
> >
> 
> There's also a copy of the OFL 1.1 in
> meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-inconsolata/OFL.txt as the
> bitbake recipe just downloads a single font file. I don't know how to
> do this as it goes across layers (not sure if relative paths would
> work) but would it be better to replace this with reference to the
> file in common-licenses? I realise this is there to satisfy having
> something in LIC_FILES_CHKSUM but it isn't doing the intended job as
> upstream could update the license and it wouldn't break this checksum.

You can use
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/OFL-1.1;md5=hash"

it's true, that this does not catch license change in upstream source,
but if there isn't any information about license in SRC_URI, then having
OFL.txt is as bad as ${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/OFL-1.1 reference imho.

Cheers,

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

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