Bug 6764 - Enforce a specific allowed list of Licenses
Summary: Enforce a specific allowed list of Licenses
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: deployment (show other bugs)
Version: 1.7
Hardware: All Multiple
: Medium enhancement
Target Milestone: Future
Assignee: Unassigned
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Reported: 2014-09-26 02:09 UTC by Jonathan Liu
Modified: 2026-08-13 14:57 UTC (History)
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Description Jonathan Liu 2014-09-26 02:09:40 UTC 
It should be possible to whitelist licenses. Whitelisting licenses is safer than maintaining a list of incompatible licenses as you can't accidentally include a recipe with a license that hasn't been reviewed and accepted.
Comment 1 Bill Randle 2016-06-27 21:38:38 UTC 
I realize this is an old bug, but are you requesting functionality that is not satisfied by the LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST variable?
Comment 2 Jonathan Liu 2016-06-29 13:34:20 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> I realize this is an old bug, but are you requesting functionality that is
> not satisfied by the LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST variable?

That is a whitelist for LICENSE_FLAGS. This request is a whitelist for LICENSE which is different.