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

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Fri Nov 4 00:46:12 PDT 2011


Op 3 nov. 2011, om 17:39 heeft Koen Kooi het volgende geschreven:

> 
> 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).

Jason, can you add license info to the repos so we can hand a proper build to Gerald?

regards,

Koen
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