[Buildroot] IOzone license questions

Gilles Talis gilles.talis at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 23:44:33 UTC 2013


Hi Arnout,

>> My questions are the following:
>> - Is it OK to add this package to buildroot, despite its restrictive
>> license?
>
>
>  Yes. But it means that we are not allowed to add cross-compilation
> patches... So we'll probably have to add a bunch of 'depends on' conditions.
>
>  I propose something like
>
> IOZONE_LICENSE = IOZone license (NO DERIVED WORKS ALLOWED)
OK. Good suggestion. Will do that. Thanks.

>
>
>> - The text of the license is not provided with the source code, but is
>> available on IOzone website.
>> Should I point to the website link in the package makefile?
>> e.g. IOZONE_LICENSE_FILES = http://www.iozone.org/docs/Iozone_License.txt
>> Or should I leave it to the user to go and find it on his own?
>
>
>  Unfortunately, URLs don't work for LICENSE_FILES. So just add a comment in
> the .mk file pointing to the URL.
OK. That works for me. Thanks for the suggestions!

Cheers,
Gilles.


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