From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Some legal-info observations/problems
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:43:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5253392E.8060000@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHt8ZCPpVROvLJ8Fb1TrtwMTLKfBcdCBDwH0k4m-QNfisPnugg@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/04/13 17:46, Simon Dawson wrote:
> On 4 October 2013 16:34, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> My suggestion in this case would be to use <pkg>_LICENSE_FILES = N/A
>> (or whatever magic value is chosen) and in parallel ask the upstream
>> maintainer to include the license file directly into the release
>> tarballs.
>
> This is an existing problem for the jquery package, where there is no
> release tarball as such. It would be nice to be able to specify URLs
> in the <pkg>_LICENSE_FILES variable.
+1.
Now to find a volunteer who implements it :-)
Ideally, such an external license should be downloaded already with
'make source'. Though that is perhaps stretching it a little...
Regards,
Arnout
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-07 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-02 14:06 [Buildroot] Some legal-info observations/problems Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-02 14:22 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-10-02 14:32 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-02 15:23 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-02 16:33 ` Luca Ceresoli
2013-10-03 8:24 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-03 16:40 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-10-04 8:54 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-04 9:07 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-04 15:30 ` Ryan Barnett
2013-10-04 15:34 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-04 15:39 ` Ryan Barnett
2013-10-04 15:46 ` Simon Dawson
2013-10-07 22:43 ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2013-10-09 7:23 ` Simon Dawson
2013-10-09 7:29 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-09 7:31 ` Simon Dawson
2013-10-05 21:07 ` Luca Ceresoli
2013-10-02 16:31 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-10-03 8:30 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-02 18:49 ` Ryan Barnett
2013-10-03 8:34 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-03 13:31 ` Ryan Barnett
2013-10-03 13:42 ` Danomi Manchego
2013-10-03 14:12 ` Ryan Barnett
2013-10-03 16:50 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-10-03 21:38 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-10-03 22:44 ` Ryan Barnett
2013-10-07 8:19 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-09 13:14 ` Luca Ceresoli
2013-10-09 16:46 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-10-11 14:13 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-09 19:54 ` Ryan Barnett
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