[Buildroot] [PATCH] snmppp: extract license text from source files

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:47:56 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> In principle, yes. However, consider this case:
> 
>   - package is BSD-3c licensed, so redistributing the source is not
>     mandatory,
> 
>   - the user has a local patch for that package,
> 
>   - the user does not want to share those modifications, which he is
>     allowed to do as per the BSD-3c,
> 
>   - using a source file as license file would "leak" those modifications
>     (or part of those) in the legal-info.
> 
> So, using a source file is not perfect either.

No, it's certainly not perfect, but good enough. I would expect people
to review the legal-info generated by Buildroot before publishing them,
so they should notice such issues especially if they are really
concerned about no publishing the source code for a BSD-3c component:
by default we copy the source code for that package to legal-info
(though not the local patch).

Thomas
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