[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 01/22] legal-info: infrastructure to collect legally-relevant material

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 05/17/12 19:33, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> This allows to automatically collect material that may be needed to comply with
> the license of packages that Buildroot prepares for the target device.
>
> The core of the implementation is made by the following parts:
>   - in package/pkg-utils.mk some helper functions are defined for common actions
>     such as generating a warning, producing info about a package etc;
>   - in package/pkg-gentargets.mk, within the GENTARGETS framework, a new
>     <PKG>-legal-info target produces all the info for a given package;
>   - Makefile implements the top-level targets:
>     - legal-info-prepare creates the output directory and produces legal info
>       about Buildroot itself and the toolchain, which mostly means just warning
>       the user that this is not implemented;
>     - legal-info, the only target that is supposed to be used directly, depends
>       on all of the above and finishes things by producing the README files from
>       the various pieces.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli<luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>


  Regards,
  Arnout
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