[Buildroot] Some legal-info observations/problems

Simon Dawson spdawson at gmail.com
Fri Oct 4 15:46:59 UTC 2013


On 4 October 2013 16:34, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> My suggestion in this case would be to use <pkg>_LICENSE_FILES = N/A
> (or whatever magic value is chosen) and in parallel ask the upstream
> maintainer to include the license file directly into the release
> tarballs.

This is an existing problem for the jquery package, where there is no
release tarball as such. It would be nice to be able to specify URLs
in the <pkg>_LICENSE_FILES variable.


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