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diff --git a/doc/dev_add_new_pkgs.rst b/doc/dev_add_new_pkgs.rst index 3506436d7..6b1248563 100644 --- a/doc/dev_add_new_pkgs.rst +++ b/doc/dev_add_new_pkgs.rst @@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ PTXdist specific. What does it mean: - ``*_LICENSE`` enables the user to get a list of licenses she/he is using in her/his project (licenses of the enabled packages). + See :ref:`licensing_in_packages` below for detailed information. After enabling the menu entry, we can start to check the *get* and *extract* stages, calling them manually one after another. @@ -603,48 +604,3 @@ to do (even if its boring and takes time): This will re-start with a **clean** BSP and builds exactly the new package and its (known) dependencies. If this builds successfully as well we are really done with the new package. - -Some Notes about Licenses -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -The already mentioned rule variable ``*_LICENSE`` (e.g. ``FOO_LICENSE`` in our -example) is very important and must be filled by the developer of the package. -Many licenses bring in obligations using the corresponding package (*attribution* -for example). To make life easier for everybody the license for a package must -be provided. *SPDX* license identifiers unify the license names and are used -in PTXdist to identify license types and obligations. - -If a package comes with more than one license, all of their SPDX identifiers -must be listed and connected with the keyword ``AND``. If your package comes -with GPL-2.0 and LGPL-2.1 licenses, the definition should look like this: - -.. code-block:: make - - FOO_LICENSE := GPL-2.0 AND LGPL-2.1 - -One specific obligation cannot be detected examining the SPDX license identifiers -by PTXdist: *the license choice*. In this case all licenses of choice must be -listed and connected by the keyword ``OR``. - -If, for example, your obligation is to select one of the licenses *GPL-2.0* **or** -*GPL-3.0*, the ``*_LICENSE`` variable should look like this: - -.. code-block:: make - - FOO_LICENSE := GPL-2.0 OR GPL-3.0 - -SPDX License Identifiers -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - -A list of SPDX license identifiers can be found here: - - https://spdx.org/licenses/ - -Help to Detect the Correct License -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - -License identification isn't trivial. A help in doing so can be the following -repository and its content. It contains a list of known licenses based on their -SPDX identifier. The content is without formatting to simplify text search. - - https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/tree/master/text |