[PATCH] pylibfdt: setup.py: Drop license_files

[Quentin Schulz]

Hi Tom,

On 7/25/25 5:57 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 05:30:59PM +0200, Quentin Schulz wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> On 7/25/25 5:18 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On more recent versions of setuptools the warning about not being able
>>> to find the files specified in license_files has re-appeared. This is
>>> because as best I can tell, it can't and won't look in $(srctree) but
>>> rather only subdirectories of scripts/dtc/pylibfdt. Since we already
>>> provide both SPDX tags and a license field with the SPDX contents, let
>>> us just drop license_files as it's not mandatory.
>>>
>>
>> IANAL but I believe we need to ship the file, that's part of the license
>> requirements for both GPL-2.0-or-later and BSD-2-Clause.
> 
> I mean, we who? As part of "we should re-examine how we bundle Python
> stuff", yes, I don't know if our pylibfdt stuff is at all optimal
> anymore and we should maybe we talking with upstream dtc more. But
> $(srctree)/Licenses/gpl-2.0.txt and
> $(srctree)/Licenses/bsd-2-clause.txt exist and we don't publish the
> python binaries.
> 

Yeah I guess it's the last part that matters, as far as I understood 
from what you wrote, this means it's essentially only used locally and 
never uploaded anywhere for consumption by users, so I believe that 
would be fine.

I guess this patch is an ok stop-gap measure?

Cheers,
Quentin