[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/simh: new package

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

Baruch, All,

On 2016-08-16 17:29 +0300, Baruch Siach spake thusly:
> As Yann marked this patch as rejected, this discussion is moot. But I'll 
> respond below for future reference.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:31:10AM +0200, Lothar Felten wrote:
> > On 16.08.2016 05:50, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > > Looking into a random source file like sim_imd.c, the license seems to be 
> > > MIT. See https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
> > 
> > Most files have a MIT-license/disclaimer, a few files reference GNU GPL
> > (Intel-Systems/common/i8088.c), at least one file is paritally zlib/libpng
> > license (sim_video.c, line 102), one file is "licensed under the standard
> > SimH license" (PDP11/pdp11_kmc.c), which seems to be MIT.
> 
> In this case <PKG>_LICENSE should list all these licenses.

Yes.

> > There's a Word .doc file doc/simh.doc that states:
> > 
> > COPYRIGHT NOTICE: The following copyright notice applies to the SIMH source,
> > binary, and documentation (an then: MIT license)
> > 
> > An older PDF version is online:
> > http://simh.trailing-edge.com/pdf/simh_doc.pdf
> > 
> > Should I point to the simh.doc file?
> 
> I don't think so. Not sure how our legal info infra handles binary document 
> formats.

FOO_LICENSE_FILES are just copied; we don't do anything with them. So
it's fine to list a .doc in there.

> Instead you may put source files that contain respective licenses 
> text in <PKG>_LICENSE_FILES.

Only for those licenses that do not have a separate license file, or are
not listed in that .doc file.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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