[Buildroot] [PATCH] core/legal-info: allow ignoring packages from the legal-info

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> writes:

 > It might be necessary to not even mention a package in the output of
 > legal-info:

 >   - virtual packages have virtually nothing to save in the legal-info
 >     output;

 >   - for proprietary packages, it might not even be legal to even
 >     mention them, being under NDA or some other such restrictive
 >     conditions.

 > Introduce the new FOO_GEN_LEGAL_INFO variable that a package can set
 > to 'NO' (default to 'YES') to indicate that the package should be
 > completely ignored from the legal-info output, in which case the
 > package is not mentioned in the maniufest, its source archive,
 > patches and license files are not saved into legal-info/ .

Couldn't / shouldn't the 2nd part already be handled by
<foo>_REDISTRIBUTE = NO and/or <foo>_LICENSE = PROPRIETARY?

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard