[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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