[Buildroot] [git commit] CHANGES: add #163 + #473
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Fri Jul 24 13:50:19 UTC 2009
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
Hi,
>> I agree that the xtensa stuff is "special" in various ways, but I
>> think it's more productive to get it into git and then work on
>> getting it cleaned up more, instead of having it gather dust in
>> bugzilla.
Thomas> Ok, fair enough. Reading the patches again, they don't look
Thomas> too invasive after all.
No, it is pretty much self contained.
Thomas> I'm concerned by the licensing of
Thomas> target/xtensa/xt-buildroot-overlay-install, since this file
Thomas> states:
Thomas> +# Copyright (c) 2003-2008 by Tensilica Inc. ALL RIGHTS
Thomas> +RESERVED. # These coded instructions, statements, and
Thomas> +computer programs are the # copyrighted works and
Thomas> +confidential proprietary information of Tensilica Inc.
Yes, that doesn't fly with the GPL requirements. Maxim, is it OK with
you to get rid of that header?
Thomas> BTW, was Perl already a host dependency to run Buildroot ?
Well, it is indirectly as you need Perl to build Linux + a number of
packages, but nothing in buildroot self was using Perl.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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