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authorMichael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>2023-07-31 19:54:16 +0200
committerSteve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>2023-08-02 04:47:13 -1000
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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: 4dfef81ac6164764c6541e39a9fef81d49227096) Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
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14 Building an image without GNU General Public License Version 3 14 Building an image without GNU General Public License Version 3
15 (GPLv3), GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3 (LGPLv3), and 15 (GPLv3), GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3 (LGPLv3), and
16 the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPL-3.0) components 16 the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPL-3.0) components
17 is only supported for minimal and base images. Furthermore, if you 17 is only tested for core-image-minimal image. Furthermore, if you would like to
18 are going to build an image using non-GPLv3 and similarly licensed 18 build an image and verify that it does not include GPLv3 and similarly licensed
19 components, you must make the following changes in the ``local.conf`` 19 components, you must make the following changes in the image recipe
20 file before using the BitBake command to build the minimal or base 20 file before using the BitBake command to build the image:
21 image::
22 21
23 1. Comment out the EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES line 22 INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE = "GPL-3.0* LGPL-3.0*"
24 2. Set INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE = "GPL-3.0* LGPL-3.0* AGPL-3.0*"
25 23
24 Alternatively, you can adjust ``local.conf`` file, repeating and adjusting the line
25 for all images where the license restriction must apply:
26
27 INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE:pn-your-image-name = "GPL-3.0* LGPL-3.0*"
26 28
27From within the ``poky`` Git repository, you can use the following 29From within the ``poky`` Git repository, you can use the following
28command to display the list of directories within the :term:`Source Directory` 30command to display the list of directories within the :term:`Source Directory`