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From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] sam-ba: add license information
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:46:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <516E3719.3000502@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHt8ZCM50Px59NfArH=xeOeGH1mvnmtN7tS8m01Euv5rQo87oQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 15/04/13 10:40, Simon Dawson wrote:
> Hi Thomas, thanks for looking at this.
>
> On 15 April 2013 09:32, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>  wrote:
>> >Simon,
>> >
>> >On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:19:00 +0100,spdawson at gmail.com  wrote:
>> >
>>> >>+SAM_BA_LICENSE = BSD-like
>>> >>+SAM_BA_LICENSE_FILES = doc/readme.txt
>> >
>> >Hum, is this really the case? I thought the source code for it was not
>> >available? Well, it's true that a binary-only program can carry a BSD
>> >license... but to me, having 'BSD-like' license on a binary-only
>> >program sounds a bit odd.
> Yes, agreed. I'm not sure what the right approach is, given that
> sam-ba as distributed is a mixture of pre-built binaries, and (C and
> Tcl) source code. Perhaps we just say "sam-ba license", which may be
> less contentious...?

  I do like the "BSD-like" qualifier, though, because it tells you a lot 
more. How about "BSD-like (partly binary-only)"?

  Regards,
  Arnout

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-17  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-15  7:19 [Buildroot] [PATCH] sam-ba: add license information spdawson at gmail.com
2013-04-15  8:32 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-04-15  8:40   ` Simon Dawson
2013-04-17  5:46     ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2013-04-17  7:52       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-04-17  8:00         ` Simon Dawson

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