From 76c7d68ed99f44354a8e6af1ec494ca14abb20a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Narayan Kamath <narayan@google.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:34:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Allow modules to override the default NOTICE file.

It's useful in projects where different top level modules have
different licenses associated with them.

(cherry picked from commit 3026f4daf11b2d4729559d49624e748a82f15495)

Change-Id: I71b20d6f979c0f50562f4f44b2af1f3ec2909444
---
 core/clear_vars.mk   | 1 +
 core/notice_files.mk | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/clear_vars.mk b/core/clear_vars.mk
index 6cf344f29..49e56c4cb 100644
--- a/core/clear_vars.mk
+++ b/core/clear_vars.mk
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ LOCAL_SANITIZE_RECOVER:=
 LOCAL_DBUS_PROXY_PREFIX:=
 LOCAL_INIT_RC:=
 LOCAL_MODULE_HOST_OS:=
+LOCAL_NOTICE_FILE:=
 
 # arch specific variables
 LOCAL_SRC_FILES_$(TARGET_ARCH):=
diff --git a/core/notice_files.mk b/core/notice_files.mk
index cf2dad675..e7f89745b 100644
--- a/core/notice_files.mk
+++ b/core/notice_files.mk
@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@
 ## Track NOTICE files
 ###########################################################
 
+ifneq ($(LOCAL_NOTICE_FILE),)
+notice_file:=$(strip $(LOCAL_NOTICE_FILE))
+else
 notice_file:=$(strip $(wildcard $(LOCAL_PATH)/NOTICE))
+endif
 
 ifeq ($(LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS),GYP)
   # We ignore NOTICE files for modules of type GYP.
-- 
2.11.0