[meta-ti] [PATCH 1/3] licenses: add standard TI licenses

Thu Apr 24 07:36:00 PDT 2014

Acked-by: Franklin Cooper Jr. <fcooper at ti.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: meta-ti-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-ti-
> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Maupin, Chase
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 7:39 AM
> To: Denys Dmytriyenko; meta-ti at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-ti] [PATCH 1/3] licenses: add standard TI licenses
> 
> Acked-by: Chase Maupin <chase.maupin at ti.com>
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: meta-ti-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-ti-
> >bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Denys Dmytriyenko
> >Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 4:55 PM
> >To: meta-ti at yoctoproject.org
> >Subject: [meta-ti] [PATCH 1/3] licenses: add standard TI licenses
> >
> >From: Denys Dmytriyenko <denys at ti.com>
> >
> >The new Texas Instruments Text File License (TI-TFL) is now replacing
> >the old Technology and Software Publicly Available (TSPA) license. But
> >there are older versions of the components previously released under
> >TI-TSPA license.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Denys Dmytriyenko <denys at ti.com>
> >---
> > conf/layer.conf  |   2 +
> > licenses/TI-TFL  |  62 +++++++++++++++++  licenses/TI-TSPA | 206
> >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 3 files changed, 270 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 licenses/TI-TFL
> > create mode 100644 licenses/TI-TSPA
> >
> >diff --git a/conf/layer.conf b/conf/layer.conf index faa4ac0..056422d
> >100644
> >--- a/conf/layer.conf
> >+++ b/conf/layer.conf
> >@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ BBFILES += "${LAYERDIR}/recipes*/*/*.bb
> >${LAYERDIR}/recipes*/*/*.bbappend"
> > BBFILE_COLLECTIONS += "meta-ti"
> > BBFILE_PATTERN_meta-ti := "^${LAYERDIR}/"
> > BBFILE_PRIORITY_meta-ti = "6"
> >+
> >+LICENSE_PATH += "${LAYERDIR}/licenses"
> >diff --git a/licenses/TI-TFL b/licenses/TI-TFL new file mode 100644
> >index 0000000..264692b
> >--- /dev/null
> >+++ b/licenses/TI-TFL
> >@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
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> >index 0000000..fd87c2a
> >--- /dev/null
> >+++ b/licenses/TI-TSPA
> >@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
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