Re: [meta-arago][master][PATCH] dbus: remove license selection override

On Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 03:25:42PM -0600, Andrew Davis wrote:
> On 12/5/25 2:52 PM, Randolph Sapp via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> >From: Randolph Sapp <[email protected]>
> >
> >Not entirely sure why this exists. History indicates that someone wanted
> >to select one of dbus's two license for distribution. Not entirely sure
> >we need to change the recipe itself to do that.
> >
> 
> Seems we do the same for freetype. Not sure if it was to fix some SBOM
> check issue or what. But yeah overwriting the LICENSE to hide that the
> project is dual licensed doesn't change the fact it is dual licensed..

SW Manifest in the early days of OSRB required to select a specific license 
if there was a choice. Seems silly now, I know.


> >Signed-off-by: Randolph Sapp <[email protected]>
> >---
> >  meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-arago.inc  | 3 ---
> >  meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/dbus/dbus_%.bbappend | 4 ----
> >  2 files changed, 7 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-arago.inc
> >  delete mode 100644 meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/dbus/dbus_%.bbappend
> >
> >diff --git a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-arago.inc b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-arago.inc
> >deleted file mode 100644
> >index da612c59..00000000
> >--- a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-arago.inc
> >+++ /dev/null
> >@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
> >-PR:append = ".arago1"
> >-
> >-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
> >diff --git a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/dbus/dbus_%.bbappend b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/dbus/dbus_%.bbappend
> >deleted file mode 100644
> >index 5464eaa7..00000000
> >--- a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/dbus/dbus_%.bbappend
> >+++ /dev/null
> >@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
> >-DBUS_ARAGO = ""
> >-DBUS_ARAGO:arago = "dbus-arago.inc"
> >-
> >-require ${DBUS_ARAGO}