[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 00/22] Automatically produce legal compliance info

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Le Thu, 17 May 2012 19:32:59 +0200,
Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> a ?crit :

> here is the third version of the legal-info feature implementation.
> 
> Links to discussion of previous versions:
> v1:
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-January/049590.html
> v2:
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-March/051132.html
> v3: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-May/053574.html
> 
> This version is only a minor update to fix various issues reported by
> other developers. There are not changes to the general structure, so
> please see the link above for v3 for a detailed presentation.
> 
> Let me repeat only my plea to all Buildroot developers to read and
> give feedback on patch 9.
> It gives an advice from Buildroot developers to Buildroot users about
> how to comply with both Buildroot's and the packages' licenses.
> Of course this must match as much as possible what the developers
> think, so please read it and give either your different views or your
> ack (preferably with a formal Acked-by tag).

Ok, this series has been around for a while. I think that the overall
idea has been accepted by everybody, and has been discussed during the
Buildroot Developers Meeting in February.

Even though I think there might be a few possibilities to make the code
a bit nicer in patch 01/22, that's only internal implementation details
that can be improved at a later point.

Therefore, I'm now hesitating between those two solutions:

 (1) Pulling all this in the current master, so that it will be part of
     the next 2012.08 release. The chance of breaking seems fairly
     limited to me, and this code has been around for a while, and I'd
     like us to make progress on this.

 (2) Be a bit safer, and wait the end of July to merge this into the
     -next branch, once 2012.08-rc1 has been released.

What's the community opinion on this? At the moment, I'm leaning
towards (1), but I'd like to hear others opinion on this.

Best regards,

Thomas
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