From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:22:07 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] uboot-tools: fix license issues In-Reply-To: References: <1382452676-2514-1-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> Message-ID: <5266981F.4030906@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 10/22/2013 11:57 AM, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > Maybe the legal-info target should warn for non-existing files, rather > than error out. > It seems more logical to support the latest versions than to support > none, with respect to _LICENSE_FILES. > Those who build older versions of u-boot should see the warning and > handle it appropriately. Yes, that's what i thought, this is the quick fix but maybe not the desired one. > Note that in either case, we can't trust the _LICENSE directive > either: a project could change license along the way, and if buildroot > allows to select an arbitrary version in the config, the specified > LICENSE may be wrong. Looking at Licenses/README in 2013.10 it seems there was some licensing cleanup done and not all the code is guaranteed to be GPLv2*. It's mostly accurate for uboot-tools but may not be so for target u-boot (which isn't covered by this issue, just bringing up the details here). Regards.