Re: [ptxdist] license info

[Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <guille.rodriguez@gmail.com>]

OK. My view is that this (storing the license text in the rootfs)
would be unnecessary for many licenses, while not completely
fulfilling requirements for others. But IANAL either and you may very
well be right :-)

Guillermo

2015-02-11 18:03 GMT+01:00 Erwin Rol <mailinglists@erwinrol.com>:
> The Yocto project seems store all license info on the target filesystem.
> With the large companies like Intel (with a large number of lawyers)
> that are part of the Yocto project, I assume it is done to reduce the
> risk of non-compliance. Even if might be over kill.
>
> - Erwin
>
> PS: IANAL, but some way stranger demands came from a lawyer from a big
> German company (that just mentioned it would let go 9000 ppl.)
>
>
> On 11-2-2015 17:49, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
>> That would be a pretty amusing way to show a license.
>>
>> Guillermo
>>
>> 2015-02-11 17:28 GMT+01:00 Erwin Rol <mailinglists@erwinrol.com>:
>>> The target is the "software", by having the license files on the target
>>> the "software" can reproduce the license files when asked (telnet/ssh +
>>> cat license.txt)
>>>
>>> - Erwin
>>>
>>> On 11-2-2015 17:11, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
>>>> In many cases the actual requirement is that the licensing information
>>>> is shown in the software itself (e.g. if it has a GUI) or in the
>>>> accompanying documentation (e.g. user manuals and such). None of this
>>>> would happen automatically if the licenses are just copied to the
>>>> target rootfs, so I guess that this would not be very useful in
>>>> itself.
>>>>
>>>> Guillermo
>>>>
>>>> 2015-02-11 16:52 GMT+01:00 Erwin Rol <mailinglists@erwinrol.com>:
>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 ?
>>>>>
>>>>> - Erwin
>>>>>
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