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Building an image without GNU General Public License Version 3
(GPLv3), GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3 (LGPLv3), and
the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPL-3.0) components
- is only supported for minimal and base images. Furthermore, if you
- are going to build an image using non-GPLv3 and similarly licensed
- components, you must make the following changes in the ``local.conf``
- file before using the BitBake command to build the minimal or base
- image:
- ::
+ is only tested for core-image-minimal image. Furthermore, if you would like to
+ build an image and verify that it does not include GPLv3 and similarly licensed
+ components, you must make the following changes in the image recipe
+ file before using the BitBake command to build the image:
- 1. Comment out the EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES line
- 2. Set INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE = "GPL-3.0 LGPL-3.0 AGPL-3.0"
+ INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE = "GPL-3.0* LGPL-3.0*"
+ Alternatively, you can adjust ``local.conf`` file, repeating and adjusting the line
+ for all images where the license restriction must apply:
+
+ INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE_pn-your-image-name = "GPL-3.0* LGPL-3.0*"
From within the ``poky`` Git repository, you can use the following
command to display the list of directories within the :term:`Source Directory`