[Buildroot] Some legal-info observations/problems
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Thu Oct 3 21:38:56 UTC 2013
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> writes:
Hi,
Thomas> While I don't need the URL for my process, I currently also
Thomas> don't need the name of the tarball in manifest.csv (and I leave
Thomas> out this last column anyway). So, I'm not opposed to adding
Thomas> this extra column, but there may be some caveats: with the
Thomas> OVERRIDE_SRCDIR mechanism it is possible for a project to
Thomas> completely change the sources of an existing package in
Thomas> buildroot. Strictly speaking this could mean that there is no
Thomas> relation whatsoever between the URL specified in the .mk file
Thomas> and the actual sources used. This is probably very exotic,
Thomas> though, and maybe it doesn't really matter for your process.
Same could be said about the other fields (license, license files). In
general, you can only expect the legal-info stuff to be (hopefully)
valid if you don't override.
But yeah, I would be OK with adding the upstream URL (as in <pkg>_SITE).
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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