Add the MIT license - #132
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The repository carried no license file. Without one, default copyright applies and nobody may legally reuse the code, which contradicts the way this repository is published and used. Add the MIT license, matching OSSystems/nix-actions.
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Answered by the maintainer, 2026-08-14, and verified against the tree.
The reason the layer carries the text: some customers ship private code that cannot be Verified on the branch head:
So the two cover different things and do not overlap:
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The layer has no license file. GitHub reports no license for it, so
default copyright applies and nobody may legally reuse it. This layer
is registered in the OpenEmbedded layer index on 23 branches and is
published for others to build on, so the current state blocks exactly the
use it invites.
This adds the MIT license, matching
OSSystems/nix-actions. MIT waschosen because it is what
meta-freescaleand most OpenEmbedded layersuse, so it causes the least friction downstream. The copyright range runs
from the first commit in this repository (2013) to the current year.
One point that needs a maintainer decision
This layer also ships
conf/licenses/OSSCL-1.0, the "O.S. SystemsCommercial License version 1.0", wired in through
LICENSE_PATH. The twodo not conflict as they stand, because they cover different things:
recipes, classes and configuration files in this repository.
OSSCL-1.0is a license text made available for other recipes toreference through
LICENSE_PATH. No public recipe in this layerdeclares it.
Please confirm that reading before merging. If any file in this repository
is in fact meant to be under
OSSCL-1.0rather than MIT, say so and thispull request needs a carve-out rather than a blanket license.
Found while auditing the public record of the company repositories.