From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 17:46:49 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Why have legal info for host packages? In-Reply-To: <20130607115100.510530ad@skate> References: <20130602161923.GB3510@free.fr> <20130607115100.510530ad@skate> Message-ID: <20130607154649.GA6124@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'