[Buildroot] [PATCH 03/51] package/dtc: add option to install programs

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Dec 3 18:10:25 UTC 2012


Thomas, All,

On Thursday 29 November 2012 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:54:02 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > There is some (minor?) issues wrt the licensing terms.
> > The libfdt library is dual-licensed GPLv2+/BSD-2c, and the
> > executables are licensed GPLv2+.
> > 
> > There is no way in BR to properly convey this information.
> > So I decided to add some explanatory comments in the .mk
> > file, in retaliation. ;-)
> 
> As per the discussion during the Developers Days, there is now a way to
> convey this information. From the report:
> 
>      multiple licenses: we don't want to make things very complex. It
>      doesn't have to be machine-readable (we don't need to support
>      machine analysis of the license field), so we don't have to
>      formally decide how the license text must be written. It does make
>      sense to have some convention, though. Proposal: "GPLv2+ or BSD-2c
>      for the library, GPLv2+ for the dtc executable". 

Right-o-right, I forgot that. Thanks for reminding me. :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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