[scarthgap] License issues checking by SPDX License.

[mark-bchoi]

Hi,

There are many license issues by filtered by SPDX license policy which would be added by scarthgap branch. I modified them manually but, I am not sure it is correct approach.

License issues by SPDX license , for example, one of them :

NOTE: Executing Tasks
ERROR: apriltag-3.4.2-1-r0 do_create_spdx: Cannot find any text for license BSD
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/bchoi/nvidia-yocto-bsp/bchoi-build/tmp/work/armv8a-oe4t-linux/apriltag/3.4.2-1/temp/log.do_create_spdx.1328371
ERROR: Task (/home/bchoi/nvidia-yocto-bsp/layers/meta-ros/meta-ros2-humble/generated-recipes/apriltag/apriltag_3.4.2-1.bb:do_create_spdx) failed with exit code '1'
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 5984 tasks of which 5959 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.

Summary: 1 task failed:
  /home/bchoi/nvidia-yocto-bsp/layers/meta-ros/meta-ros2-humble/generated-recipes/apriltag/apriltag_3.4.2-1.bb:do_create_spdx
Summary: There was 1 ERROR message, returning a non-zero exit code.

This error was from LICENSE = "BSD" which was not problematic for the previous branch, kirkstone.

Can you please let me know whether there is some way to turn checking SPDX license off or not?

My bitbake layer for ros2 and openembedded commit ids are :

meta-ros2-humble     = "HEAD:b96ba3d66488aca5868fa1a94643a7f52b2cfc07"
meta                 = "HEAD:bf3fe8c01c5cc00ada22049f4f0abb485e2a626f"

BR,
Mark

[mark-bchoi]

I could change LICENSE = "BSD" to LICENSE = "0BSD" with command in advance.

grep -rn LICENSE\ \=\ \"BSD\" * | cut -d : -f 1 | xargs sed -i s/LICENSE\ \=\ \"BSD\"/LICENSE\ \=\ \"0BSD\"/g

[jiaxshi]

A simple workaround is:

poky/meta$ cp files/common-licenses/BSD-3-Clause files/common-licenses/BSD

[yangpeng1995]

The community removed the BSD license in Scarthgap, so this broad license cannot be used in the future
https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?h=scarthgap&id=56fe6d575e184ed44807fe27e069233da36962ad

The correct solution would be to change the license to concrete names such as "BSD-3-Clause".

Not to rename the BSD-3-Clause to BSD...

[jiaxshi]

The community removed the BSD license in Scarthgap, so this broad license cannot be used in the future https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?h=scarthgap&id=56fe6d575e184ed44807fe27e069233da36962ad

The correct solution would be to change the license to concrete names such as "BSD-3-Clause".

Not to rename the BSD-3-Clause to BSD...

As i mentioned in #1208, there are multiple BSD variant used by ROS packages. It's good to have a method to parse and use accurate LICENSEN in superflore process.

[shr-project]

Please see ros-infrastructure/catkin_pkg#296 ros/rosdistro#26601 and ros-infrastructure/superflore#279

I don't work on ROS anymore but it indeed needs to be fixed by ROS component owners and QA check in catkin was supposed to incrementally motivate them to update license when updating the version.