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From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] uboot-tools: fix license issues
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:35:08 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <526913FC.7070905@zacarias.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52691180.9070908@mind.be>

On 10/24/2013 09:24 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>  Now, for the specific case of U-Boot, we can do better: if _VERSION is
> 2013.10 or larger, we can use the new license specification, else the
> old one (and due to U-Boot's versioning policy we can just use sort;
> custom has to be handled separately anyway).

We don't use version choices any more, just a recommended version
string, so matching might not be that easy.
And there's custom tarball / git repo / etc too.

>  But another issue is that the license that we specify is just plain
> wrong (as so often): all the U-Boot versions contain code that is GPLv2
> without + and that is BSD-3c, some also contain code that is eCos-2.0,
> IBM-pibs, LGPL. So we should probably fix the license spec for U-Boot
> regardless of where it comes from.

The U-Boot licenses that apply rely on the selected target too which
complicates things.
I don't think we want to become license police here other than "one or
more of X, Y, ..., please do your homework".
Regards.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-24 12:35 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
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 [this message]
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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