Re: [ptxdist] [RFC 0/2] add a way to extract license text from packages

[Markus Niebel <list-09_ptxdist@tqsc.de>]

Hello,
Am 29.01.2015 um 21:23 schrieb Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia:
> Hi,
> 
> If I understand correctly the auditing procedure before this patch would be:
> 
> 1. Collect all existing files in state/<pkg>.license
> 2. Each .license file contains the license name (e.g. "GPL") -- use
> this to find the actual license text
> 3. Audit each license
> 
> What would be the difference after this patch?
> 

My goal is to have a single place where the licenses of the target packages
are collected (think of it like export_src for license information - license
names and license text). 

Motivation:
- Some packages have additional clauses to the license text (Qt for instances). 
  So it would be a benefit to have the text from the package.
- If you deliver binaries of a BSP (preinstalled or for download) some licenses
  force you to supply the license text with the binary
- In some cases non developers need to look over the licenses
- AFAIK other build tools (yocto, buildroot) has similar features

Hope this helps

Markus

> Thanks,
> 
> Guillermo
> 
> 
> 2015-01-29 8:45 GMT+01:00 Markus Niebel <list-09@tqsc.de>:
>> Am 21.01.2015 um 09:12 schrieb Markus Niebel:
>>> From: Markus Niebel <Markus.Niebel@tq-group.com>
>>>
>>> just as an RFC: it would be good to have above said features to ease
>>> deployment and auditing.
>>>
>>> First patch implements this feature as an addon of the targetinstall
>>> stage. Second patch shows the feature for a package that uses it's own
>>> license
>>>
>>> TODO:
>>> maybe targetinstall is not the right place, just in case the license
>>> is altered during patching the package.
>>>
>>> Markus Niebel (2):
>>>   ptxdist: add license text extraction
>>>   icu: add LICENSE_TEXT
>>>
>>>  rules/icu.make                         |  5 +++--
>>>  rules/post/ptxd_make_world_common.make |  1 +
>>>  scripts/lib/ptxd_make_xpkg_common.sh   |  3 +++
>>>  scripts/lib/ptxd_make_xpkg_finish.sh   | 11 +++++++++++
>>>  4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>> ping ...
>>
>> Any interest in this topic?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Markus
>>
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