From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:50:39 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] snmppp: extract license text from source files In-Reply-To: <20150722214756.GD3777@free.fr> References: <1437496184-26203-1-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> <20150721215438.19389da8@free-electrons.com> <20150722210108.GB3777@free.fr> <20150722232613.149d5890@free-electrons.com> <20150722213315.GC3777@free.fr> <20150722233730.4b9fc845@free-electrons.com> <20150722214756.GD3777@free.fr> Message-ID: <20150722235039.0beaf01e@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com