Re: [docs] [PATCH] contributor-guide/recipe-style-guide.rst: explain difference between layer and recipe license(s)

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

On Thu Jan 8, 2026 at 3:47 PM CET, Paul Barker wrote:
[...]
> Other layers may want to handle metadata licenses in different ways, for
> example by including an SPDX-License-Identifier comment at the top of
> recipe files. So I think we should keep this note more generic.
>
>   Setting a :term:`LICENSE` in a recipe applies to the software to be
>   built by this recipe, not to the recipe file itself. The license of
>   recipes, configuration files and scripts should also be clearly
>   specified, for example via comments or via a license found in the
>   :term:`layer` that holds these files. These license files are usually
>   found at the root of the layer. Exceptions should be clearly stated in
>   the layer README or LICENSE file.
>
>   For example, the :term:`OpenEmbedded-Core (OE-Core)` layer provides both
>   the GPL-2.0-only and MIT license files, and a "LICENSE" file to explain
>   how these two licenses are attributed to files found in the layer.
>
> How does that look?

Looks great, that makes sense indeed. I'll send a new version. Thanks!

Antonin

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