[Buildroot] Why have legal info for host packages?

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, All,

On 2013-06-07 11:51 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 18:19:23 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
> > On 2013-06-02 12:12 -0400, Danomi Manchego spake thusly:
> > > I was using the outputs from "make legal-info" yesterday as the basis for
> > > our embedded product's licenses web page, and found myself modifying
> > > pkg-generic.mk to exclude host packages from the legal info collection.  So
> > > I was wondering - what is the value in including the legal info of packages
> > > built for the host?
> > 
> > Some companies use Buildroot as a base for the SDK and provide pre-built
> > environment to their customers. So, we have to also install legal-info
> > for host packages to cope with this situation.
> 
> Yes, but as we discussed some time ago, the host packages should either
> be identified as such in the legal info, or even maybe a separate
> manifest.csv file should be generated for the host packages.

Indeed. I never said otherwise. I was just pointing out that we also
want to generate it for host packages, and was giving an example why
this was needed.

That this legal-info stuff be generated in a separate location (file,
dir) is orthogonal: we want it generated.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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