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This is an intial commit for the license reporting system. A few notes: The LICENSE fields needs to be standardized throughout poky. As it stands, we throw a warning if the license file is not found (either because it does not exist or because LICENSE_FILE_CHKSUM is munged) in the generic license directory. This should eventually become an error. I've seen a few places where Apache-v2.0 is written differently and I'm sure this will throw the above warning. This does not put the license data on the rootfs. Also, I provide both the actual license text and a link to the best guess of the generic_license. That guessing is not very robust and I'm loath to get into a bunch of pattern matching rather than standardize LICENSE. This adds one new param to poky.conf and one new to license.bbclass: LICENSE_DIR: the base directory we copy all the license results to (set in license.bbclass) COMMON_LICENSE_DIR: this is the directory that holds all the common generic license files. currently meta/files/common-licenses (set in poky.conf) TODO: - We should verify the common-licenses. I stripped these from my Ubuntu 10.10 system. - We should allow the capability of licenses on the rootfs, although the resulting image created would be a lot larger. - More common-licenses. I don't include bzip, zlib, ICS.... I should, but that means tracking down a lot of licenses. - General cleanup of licensing and standardization of names. We should standardize on a naming convention. What's in licenses.conf should match up with what is in the recipes which should match with what is in common-licenses. Outside the scope of this though. See: http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650
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The "Artistic License"
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Preamble
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The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a
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Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
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semblance of artistic control over the development of the package,
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while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute
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the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make
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reasonable modifications.
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Definitions:
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"Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the
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Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files
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created through textual modification.
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"Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been
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modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes
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of the Copyright Holder as specified below.
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"Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or
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copyrights for the package.
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"You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing
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this Package.
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basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved,
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and so on. (You will not be required to justify it to the
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Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at large
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as a market that must bear the fee.)
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"Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item
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under the same conditions they received it.
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1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
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Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you
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modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version.
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when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the
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following:
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a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them
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Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or
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an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive
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site such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include
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your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package.
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documents how it differs from the Standard Version.
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together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where
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to get the Standard Version.
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b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of
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the Package with your modifications.
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c) give non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly
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document the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together
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with instructions on where to get the Standard Version.
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d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
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commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software
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distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a
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product of your own. You may embed this Package's interpreter within
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an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere
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form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the
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interpreter is so embedded.
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under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whoever generated
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them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
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Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of producing a
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neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it
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fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do
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not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this
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Package.
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languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to
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emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this
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Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the
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equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines do
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not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the
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regression tests for the language.
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8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always
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permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is,
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when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible
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to the end user of the commercial distribution. Such use shall not be
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construed as a distribution of this Package.
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products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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