[Buildroot] [PATCH] core/legal-info: allow ignoring packages from the legal-info

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

Luca, All,

On 2016-10-15 17:40 +0200, Luca Ceresoli spake thusly:
> On 15/10/2016 17:32, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Peter, All,
> > 
> > On 2016-10-15 17:13 +0200, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> writes:
> >>
> >>  > It might be necessary to not even mention a package in the output of
> >>  > legal-info:
> >>
> >>  >   - virtual packages have virtually nothing to save in the legal-info
> >>  >     output;
> >>
> >>  >   - for proprietary packages, it might not even be legal to even
> >>  >     mention them, being under NDA or some other such restrictive
> >>  >     conditions.
> >>
> >>  > Introduce the new FOO_GEN_LEGAL_INFO variable that a package can set
> >>  > to 'NO' (default to 'YES') to indicate that the package should be
> >>  > completely ignored from the legal-info output, in which case the
> >>  > package is not mentioned in the maniufest, its source archive,
> >>  > patches and license files are not saved into legal-info/ .
> >>
> >> Couldn't / shouldn't the 2nd part already be handled by
> >> <foo>_REDISTRIBUTE = NO and/or <foo>_LICENSE = PROPRIETARY?
> > 
> > No, because for a proprietary license, you may still have to at least
> > list it in the manifest.
> > 
> > For example, the nvidia-driver package has a proprietary license, is not
> > redistributable, but we must still list it in the manifest.
> > 
> > I'll update the commit log accordingly. Thanks! ;-)
> 
> I suggest listing the three possible cases:
> 
>  * FOO_GEN_LEGAL_INFO = NO: save nothing
>  * FOO_GEN_LEGAL_INFO = YES, FOO_REDISTRIBUTE = NO: list only
>  * FOO_GEN_LEGAL_INFO = YES, FOO_REDISTRIBUTE = NO: list + save source
> 
> Maybe in the manual as well?

ACK.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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