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author | Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com> | 2023-07-28 18:50:26 +0200 |
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committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2023-08-03 15:11:11 +0100 |
commit | 6f361c81bae78f1c36faae3f01edce93cd8af957 (patch) | |
tree | 569afb58161c4a17caede61abf838acdabd34c2f /documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | |
parent | e100e3e0b3f1968421cae59d4a8fb5ea2dfc38c3 (diff) | |
download | poky-6f361c81bae78f1c36faae3f01edce93cd8af957.tar.gz |
ref-manual: document image-specific variant of INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE
This has been around without being properly documented since 2019 (!!!),
and is nowadays the preferred method for enforcing license restrictions,
especially since meta-gplv2 is officially obsolete.
(From yocto-docs rev: efa1c57ecec934998792b7851b4a162be92c8b23)
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst')
-rw-r--r-- | documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst index def98de307..44e2dd08a8 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | |||
@@ -3929,9 +3929,18 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents. | |||
3929 | :term:`INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE` | 3929 | :term:`INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE` |
3930 | Specifies a space-separated list of license names (as they would | 3930 | Specifies a space-separated list of license names (as they would |
3931 | appear in :term:`LICENSE`) that should be excluded | 3931 | appear in :term:`LICENSE`) that should be excluded |
3932 | from the build. Recipes that provide no alternatives to listed | 3932 | from the build (if set globally), or from an image (if set locally |
3933 | in an image recipe). | ||
3934 | |||
3935 | When the variable is set globally, recipes that provide no alternatives to listed | ||
3933 | incompatible licenses are not built. Packages that are individually | 3936 | incompatible licenses are not built. Packages that are individually |
3934 | licensed with the specified incompatible licenses will be deleted. | 3937 | licensed with the specified incompatible licenses will be deleted. |
3938 | Most of the time this does not allow a feasible build (because it becomes impossible | ||
3939 | to satisfy build time dependencies), so the recommended way to | ||
3940 | implement license restrictions is to set the variable in specific | ||
3941 | image recipes where the restrictions must apply. That way there | ||
3942 | are no build time restrictions, but the license check is still | ||
3943 | performed when the image's filesystem is assembled from packages. | ||
3935 | 3944 | ||
3936 | There is some support for wildcards in this variable's value, | 3945 | There is some support for wildcards in this variable's value, |
3937 | however it is restricted to specific licenses. Currently only | 3946 | however it is restricted to specific licenses. Currently only |