Licenses¶

A releng-tool project can defined multiple packages, each with the possibility of having multiple licenses associated with them. Each project may vary: some may have only proprietary sources and may not care about tracking this information, some may only use open source software and require to populate license information for a final package, or a mix.

When license information is populated for a project, each project's license information (LIBFOO_LICENSE_FILES) is will be populated into a single license document. If a developer defines the license_header configuration, the generated document will be prefixed with the header content. For example, developers can create a new license header file assets/license-header.tpl in the project folder:

└── my-releng-tool-project/
    ├── assets/
    │   └── license-header.tpl        <----
    ├── package/
    │   └── ...
    └── releng

Which then releng can be configured to use the header contents:

import os

... (other configuration options)

root_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
license_header_file = os.path.join(root_dir, 'assets', 'license-header.tpl')

with open(license_header_file) as f:
   license_header = ''.join(f.readlines())

Licenses for a project are generated before the post-processing phase. This allows a developer to use generated license document(s) when preparing final archives/packages.