[meta-ti] [PATCH 1/2] beaglebone-getting-started: initial add

[Koen Kooi]

Op 3 nov. 2011, om 17:15 heeft Denys Dmytriyenko het volgende geschreven:

> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 09:46:26AM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
>> ---
>> recipes-misc/payload/beaglebone-getting-started.bb |   15 +++++++++++++++
>> 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 recipes-misc/payload/beaglebone-getting-started.bb
>> 
>> diff --git a/recipes-misc/payload/beaglebone-getting-started.bb b/recipes-misc/payload/beaglebone-getting-started.bb
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..d68de7e
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/recipes-misc/payload/beaglebone-getting-started.bb
>> @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
>> +DESCRIPTION = "BeagleBone Getting Started Guide"
>> +
>> +# Ask Jason
>> +LICENSE = "MIT"
>> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/LICENSE;md5=3f40d7994397109285ec7b81fdeb3b58"
> 
> Is this allowed (logically and/or legally)? It seems like defeating the 
> purpose of checksumming the license definition of the package. I know it's 
> done for the tasks, but tasks are not real packages - they are pure metadata. 
> This one fetches a git repository, hence contains "code".
> 
> I believe the proper way, if the package even mentions its license, is to 
> checksum that text directly or a portion of the code:
> 
> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://git/src/main.c;beginline=5;endline=9;md5=1234567890abcdef"

That's why it says "ask jason", since the code itself contains no license info (matrix-gui suffers from the same bug).

regards,

Koen
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