From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE38773D72 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:01:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 17 Apr 2015 04:01:32 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.11,594,1422950400"; d="scan'208";a="696785777" Received: from pbrao1-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com) ([10.252.13.156]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 17 Apr 2015 04:01:31 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: jackie.huang@windriver.com Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:01:30 +0100 Message-ID: <3157820.pKsNW7iWxA@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.14.4 (Linux/3.18.9-200.fc21.x86_64; KDE/4.14.6; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] linux-firmware: fix the mess of licenses X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:01:37 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Jackie, On Monday 13 April 2015 10:17:19 jackie.huang@windriver.com wrote: > From: Jackie Huang > > linux-firmware includes many firmwares and each firmware has their own > license, previously the LICENSE is set to "Proprietary" and some firmware > is split out to separate package such as linux-firmware-radeon and > LICENSE_linux-firmware-radeon is set to "Firmware-radeon", but there is no > license file in the common-licenses, so we got a lot warnings like: > > WARNING: The license listed Firmware-radeon was not in the licenses > collected for linux-firmware > > These include adding the missing license files and re-orgnize the codes to > fix the warnings and avoid the mess. So doing this cleanup is good, thanks; but I was wondering if we needed an alternative approach for linux-firmware. Most of the licenses in it aren't in any way common, and new ones will be added from time to time, requiring us to not only update the recipe (probably unavoidable) but also add the licenses to the common license directory. Is there any way we could make it so we at least only have to update the recipe and dispense with the need to add a bunch of common license files that are only applicable to linux-firmware? Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre