[poky] [PATCH 1/1] create-recipe: create a recipe from source URI

[Kang Kai]

On 2012年02月28日 07:40, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On 17/02/12 01:28, Kang Kai wrote:
>> This feature is from Yocto 1.2 Bug 1656. create-recipe allows you
>> to give an upstream URL then generate a recipe file. It trys to check
>> source URI, license files, configure files, rpm spec file .etc to
>> get package name, version, description, summary, license and license
>> file, build dependecy and so on.
>
> This works pretty well based on a few tests here but as this is a 
> heavily derived work of a GPLv2 script (IANAL) I'm pretty sure we need 
> to respect the author of the original works copyright and license.
I am sorry about that.

> In concrete terms I expect we need to:
> * use the original license header WITH the original Intel 2010 copyright
The original Intel 2010 copyright seems use GPLv3, does this ok?

# Copyright (C) 2010 Intel Corporation
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License.

Regards,
Kai

> * add Wind River's copyright to the new code
> * mention and link to the original work in a comment in the script

>
> With those changes I expect we can merge this and iterate on it as 
> people use it.
>
> Cheers,
> Joshua