From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] uboot-tools: fix license issues
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:22:07 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5266981F.4030906@zacarias.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAXf6LW3ob7ev6VBpG3ajRR=aMSdgN0mM=O7a7wX2+cLd6fRBA@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/22/2013 11:57 AM, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> Maybe the legal-info target should warn for non-existing files, rather
> than error out.
> It seems more logical to support the latest versions than to support
> none, with respect to _LICENSE_FILES.
> Those who build older versions of u-boot should see the warning and
> handle it appropriately.
Yes, that's what i thought, this is the quick fix but maybe not the
desired one.
> Note that in either case, we can't trust the _LICENSE directive
> either: a project could change license along the way, and if buildroot
> allows to select an arbitrary version in the config, the specified
> LICENSE may be wrong.
Looking at Licenses/README in 2013.10 it seems there was some licensing
cleanup done and not all the code is guaranteed to be GPLv2*.
It's mostly accurate for uboot-tools but may not be so for target u-boot
(which isn't covered by this issue, just bringing up the details here).
Regards.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-22 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-22 14:37 [Buildroot] [PATCH] uboot-tools: fix license issues Gustavo Zacarias
2013-10-22 14:57 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-22 15:22 ` Gustavo Zacarias [this message]
2013-10-23 9:39 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-24 6:51 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-24 8:20 ` Luca Ceresoli
2013-10-24 12:24 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-10-24 12:35 ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-10-24 19:29 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-10-22 16:39 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-10-22 16:39 ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-10-22 17:01 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-22 17:49 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-10-22 17:50 ` Gustavo Zacarias
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-10-22 16:46 Gustavo Zacarias
2013-11-02 13:43 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-11-02 16:24 ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-11-02 16:43 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-11-02 17:32 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-11-02 17:38 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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