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15072 | </para> | 15072 | </para> |
15073 | </section> | 15073 | </section> |
15074 | </section> | 15074 | </section> |
15075 | |||
15076 | <section id='copying-licenses-that-do-not-exist'> | ||
15077 | <title>Copying Licenses that Do Not Exist</title> | ||
15078 | |||
15079 | <para> | ||
15080 | Some packages, such as the linux-firmware package, have many | ||
15081 | licenses that are not in any way common. | ||
15082 | You can avoid adding a lot of these types of common license | ||
15083 | files, which are only applicable to a specific package, by using | ||
15084 | the | ||
15085 | <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-NO_GENERIC_LICENSE'><filename>NO_GENERIC_LICENSE</filename></ulink> | ||
15086 | variable. | ||
15087 | Using this variable also avoids QA errors when you use a | ||
15088 | non-common, non-CLOSED license in a recipe. | ||
15089 | </para> | ||
15090 | |||
15091 | <para> | ||
15092 | The following is an example that uses the | ||
15093 | <filename>LICENSE.Abilis.txt</filename> | ||
15094 | file as the license from the fetched source: | ||
15095 | <literallayout class='monospaced'> | ||
15096 | NO_GENERIC_LICENSE[Firmware-Abilis] = "LICENSE.Abilis.txt" | ||
15097 | </literallayout> | ||
15098 | </para> | ||
15099 | </section> | ||
15075 | </section> | 15100 | </section> |
15076 | 15101 | ||
15077 | <section id='using-the-error-reporting-tool'> | 15102 | <section id='using-the-error-reporting-tool'> |