From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:43:58 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Some legal-info observations/problems In-Reply-To: References: <20131002172307.0d6f02ea@skate> <524C4AD4.9040902@lucaceresoli.net> <524D9DE2.7090509@mind.be> <20131004110704.78f5b1a6@skate> <20131004173452.4f93d1c3@skate> Message-ID: <5253392E.8060000@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 10/04/13 17:46, Simon Dawson wrote: > On 4 October 2013 16:34, Thomas Petazzoni > wrote: >> My suggestion in this case would be to use _LICENSE_FILES = N/A >> (or whatever magic value is chosen) and in parallel ask the upstream >> maintainer to include the license file directly into the release >> tarballs. > > This is an existing problem for the jquery package, where there is no > release tarball as such. It would be nice to be able to specify URLs > in the _LICENSE_FILES variable. +1. Now to find a volunteer who implements it :-) Ideally, such an external license should be downloaded already with 'make source'. Though that is perhaps stretching it a little... Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F