From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 21:42:36 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/simh: new package In-Reply-To: <20160816142950.GH3368@tarshish> References: <1471297357-11637-1-git-send-email-lothar.felten@gmail.com> <20160816035044.GB3368@tarshish> <9ba51c53-ddb3-8a59-a3b0-9ba8e3e52f3e@gmail.com> <20160816142950.GH3368@tarshish> Message-ID: <20160816194236.GC10734@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 _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 _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. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | 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. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'