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Hello Erwin,

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 04:52:52PM +0100, Erwin Rol wrote:
> I see Michael is busy adding license info, which is a good thing. But
> AFAIK (but IANAL) the license info should also be available on the
> target. Does the new ptxdist also install the license files onto the
> target (root)fs ?
I'd say it depends on the license if this is necessary. Moreover I
doubt that just putting the license info into a file on the rootfs is
enough to fulfill the license requirements.

Moreover for the common licenses that come to my mind (GPL, BSD, MIT,
LGPL) this is not necessary. (But IANAL, too.)

Best regards
Uwe

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