Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] license-csv: Add rules to generate CSV license report.

[Andreas Pretzsch <apr@cn-eng.de>]

On Do, 2018-03-29 at 12:46 +0000, Denis OSTERLAND wrote:
> > But I would refrain from including the URL (for now), simply as it
> will
> > include all sorts of characters, which then will require proper
> > escaping.
> > [...] 
> > 
> > Denis, what do you think ?
> You are right, URL tend to be brittle.
> We use it as input for an overview page on embedded web server.
> This will need some refactoring.

Hmmmm... Based on research and quite some debates with lawyers, I'd say
to have "only" the URL in a package list is critical at least.
For a solid conformance with the various FOSS licenses, you should
include most (if not all) of the content of the ptxdist license report.
The one from "license-compliance-distribution" would be enough, but I'd
suggest just to include the complete one.

My suggestion here would be to omit the URL in the overview page, and
also link to the license-blah.pdf (on the embedded webserver). Given you
have the storage space available.
So you provide everything in the device, and need no special hacks.

Of course, you could always add a (modified) version of 
  scripts/lib/ptxd_make_license_report.sh
  scripts/lib/ptxd_make_world_license.sh
to your BSP folder under "scripts/lib/". Those will override the ones
from "official" PTXdist.


> By the way, is it possible depend on your csv report from make?
> I guess I will need to add some wrapper target to call sh function.

About adding a wrapper called from make, see
"rules/post/ptxd_make_license_report.make".
Maybe as an additional step to "license-compliance-distribution".

Having something special for CSV, well, I just included it in the normal
flow, beside the TeX/PDF generation. Would say, that's a good place.

Of course, some hook to generate such a page would be nice, too.
But this is something Michael has to decide, mainly from a conceptual
point of view.


Best regards,
  Andreas

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