From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 18:46:29 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Some legal-info observations/problems In-Reply-To: <525556CE.3000308@lucaceresoli.net> References: <525556CE.3000308@lucaceresoli.net> Message-ID: <52558865.8070804@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 10/09/13 15:14, Luca Ceresoli wrote: >> Related to this is the question of a license URL. I personally think >> it is not legally safe to only refer to a URL from a package, because >> who knows someone changes the license text on the URL. They could just >> alter the license of existing sources. >> So although the feature of automatically downloading a license text >> from its URL looks nice, I (not a lawyer) would not recommend >> implementing it. I follow ThomasP's reasoning of requesting upstream >> to add the effective license text to the sources, and in the meantime >> using the magic value decided above for case (b). > > I agree with you. Regarding the legal stuff we should stay on the safe > side. But Arnout and Simon expressed an opposite opinion on another > branch of this thread... If the package specifies that the license is available at a specific URL, then that is the license, right? It is true that the license may change unexpectedly, but to make sure it stays consistent we should download the license at the same time that the source is downloaded (which could be tricky, I admit). 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