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+# Populates LICENSE_DIRECTORY as set in poky.conf with the license files as set by
+# LIC_FILES_CHKSUM. 
+# TODO:
+# - We should also enable the ability to put the generated license directory onto the
+#  rootfs
+# - Gather up more generic licenses
+# - There is a real issue revolving around license naming standards. See license names 
+#  licenses.conf and compare them to the license names in the recipes. You'll see some
+#  differences and that should be corrected.
+
+LICENSE_DIRECTORY ??= "${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/licenses"
+
+addtask populate_lic after do_patch before do_package 
+do_populate_lic[nostamp] = "1"
+python do_populate_lic() {
+    """
+    Populate LICENSE_DIRECTORY with licenses.
+    """
+    import os
+    import bb
+    import shutil
+
+    # All the license types for the package
+    license_types = bb.data.getVar('LICENSE', d, True)
+    # All the license files for the package
+    lic_files = bb.data.getVar('LIC_FILES_CHKSUM', d, True)
+    pn = bb.data.getVar('PN', d, True)
+    # The base directory we wrangle licenses to
+    destdir = os.path.join(bb.data.getVar('LICENSE_DIRECTORY', d, True), pn)
+    # The license files are located in S/LIC_FILE_CHECKSUM.
+    srcdir = bb.data.getVar('S', d, True)
+    # Directory we store the generic licenses as set in poky.conf
+    generic_directory = bb.data.getVar('COMMON_LICENSE_DIR', d, True)
+    if not generic_directory:
+        raise bb.build.FuncFailed("COMMON_LICENSE_DIR is unset. Please set this in your distro config")
+
+    try:
+        # Let's try to clean up the packages license directory
+        shutil.rmtree(destdir)
+    except:
+        pass 
+
+    try:
+        # Create the package license directory structure.
+        bb.mkdirhier(destdir)
+    except:
+        pass
+
+    if not lic_files:
+        # No recipe should have an invalid license file. This is checked else
+        # where, but let's be pedantic
+        bb.note(pn + ": Recipe file does not have license file information.")
+        return True
+
+    for url in lic_files.split():
+        (type, host, path, user, pswd, parm) = bb.decodeurl(url)
+        # We want the license file to be copied into the destination
+        srclicfile = os.path.join(srcdir, path)
+        ret = bb.copyfile(srclicfile, os.path.join(destdir, os.path.basename(path)))
+        # If the copy didn't occur, something horrible went wrong and we fail out
+        if ret is False or ret == 0:
+            bb.warn("%s could not be copied for some reason. It may not exist. WARN for now." % srclicfile)
+ 
+    # This takes some explaining.... we now are going to go an try to symlink 
+    # to a generic file. But, with the way LICENSE works, a package can have multiple
+    # licenses. Some of them are, for example, GPLv2+, which means it can use that version
+    # of GPLv2 specified in it's license, or a later version of GPLv2. For the purposes of
+    # what we're doing here, we really don't track license revisions (although we may want to)
+    # So, we strip out the + and link to a generic GPLv2
+    #
+    # That said, there are some entries into LICENSE that either have no generic (bzip, zlib, ICS)
+    # or the LICENSE is messy (Apache 2.0 .... when they mean Apache-2.0). This should be corrected
+    # but it's outside of scope for this.
+    #
+    # Also, you get some clever license fields with logic in the field. 
+    # I'm sure someone has written a logic parser for these fields, but if so, I don't know where it is. 
+    # So what I do is just link to every license mentioned in the license field.
+    
+    for license_type in license_types.replace('&', '').replace('+', '').replace('&', '').replace('(', '').replace(')', '').split():
+        if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(generic_directory, license_type)):
+            gen_lic_dest = os.path.join(bb.data.getVar('LICENSE_DIRECTORY', d, True), "common-licenses")
+            try:
+                bb.mkdirhier(gen_lic_dest)
+            except:
+                pass
+            
+            try:
+                bb.copyfile(os.path.join(generic_directory, license_type), os.path.join(gen_lic_dest, license_type))
+            except:
+                bb.warn("%s: No generic license file exists for: %s at %s" % (pn, license_type, generic_directory))
+                pass 
+            try:
+                os.symlink(os.path.join(gen_lic_dest, license_type), os.path.join(destdir, "generic_" + license_type))
+            except:
+                bb.warn("%s: No generic license file exists for: %s at %s" % (pn, license_type, generic_directory))
+                pass
+        else:
+            bb.warn("%s: Something went wrong with copying: %s to %s" % (pn, license_type, generic_directory))
+            bb.warn("This could be either because we do not have a generic for this license or the LICENSE field is incorrect")
+            pass
+}