[Buildroot] Some legal-info observations/problems

Simon Dawson spdawson at gmail.com
Wed Oct 9 07:23:27 UTC 2013


On 7 October 2013 23:43, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> On 10/04/13 17:46, Simon Dawson wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
>  +1.
>
>  Now to find a volunteer who implements it :-)
>
>  Ideally, such an external license should be downloaded already with 'make
> source'. Though that is perhaps stretching it a little...

This can now be achieved by using Thomas P's new <pkg>_EXTRA_DOWNLOADS
mechanism to download the license file(s); I wonder if that would be
an acceptable idiom in this situation...?

Simon.


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