Add workflow to automatically update LICENSE file with recipe licenses

Originally from meta-freescale-3rdparty.

Signed-off-by: Abner C. Paula <abner.cordeiro@ossystems.com.br>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/generate-license-file b/scripts/generate-license-file
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..b6d43cd9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/generate-license-file
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Create or clear the LICENSE file
+echo "# License Information" > LICENSE
+echo "" >> LICENSE
+echo "This file lists all licenses used by recipes in the meta-freescale-3rdparty layer." >> LICENSE
+echo "" >> LICENSE
+
+# Find all .bb and .inc files and extract license information
+find . -type f \( -name "*.bb" -o -name "*.inc" \) | while read -r file; do
+    # Extract the license line from each recipe file, if it exists
+    license_line=$(grep -i "^LICENSE" "$file")
+    if [ -n "$license_line" ]; then
+        echo "$file: $license_line" >> LICENSE
+    fi
+done
+
+echo "LICENSE file has been generated and updated with current recipe licenses."