[Buildroot] Some legal-info observations/problems

Ryan Barnett rjbarnet at rockwellcollins.com
Thu Oct 3 22:44:52 UTC 2013


Peter, Thomas, All,

Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at gmail.com> wrote on 10/03/2013 04:38:56 PM:

> >>>>> "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).

Hopefully, if under the upstream URL if I put "OVERRIDE_SRCDIR Used" in
the column it can indicate that everything should be taken with a grain
of salt.

Thanks,
-Ryan



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