Re: [PATCH] meta/classes/base: Fix showdata and liststasks after bitbake update

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2018-02-08 16:47, Alexander Smirnov wrote:
> On 02/08/2018 06:24 PM, Claudius Heine wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> On 02/08/2018 02:55 PM, Alexander Smirnov wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 02/08/2018 02:26 PM, claudius.heine.ext@siemens.com wrote:
>>>> From: Claudius Heine <ch@denx.de>
>>>>
>>>> Those tasks were broken, this patchs fixes by implementing them similar
>>>> to how openembedded-core does it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I see that this code is identical to OE one, do you know which
>>> copyright it is? If this code is copied from OE, I think it makes
>>> sense to mention this explicitly in the code.
>>
>> Sure, I got it from [1], and this file does not have an own header, so
>> I suppose its MIT or GPLv2. I don't know if this falls under
>> 'metadata' or not. Since Isar uses the same licenses, you might know
>> what exactly is meant by that.
>>
>> How are you proposing to name the authors?
> 
> I see it something like:
> 
> # Derived from openembedded-core/meta/classes/utility-tasks.bbclass
> 
> @Jan: do you think we should keep this reference?

It doesn't harm us, I would say.

In general, it would be better for Isar (compared to OE) to have clear
licensing statements in each file. State-of-the-art is leaving the right
SPDX-License-Identifier behind.

Jan

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