[Buildroot] Is GPLv2 the right license for Buildroot?

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Mon Sep 16 21:13:48 UTC 2013


>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:

Hi,

 Yann> Now, let's try to make things clear:

 Yann>   - on an embedded system, the probability that there is a GPL program
 Yann>     is rather high (eg. busybox, the Linux kernel);

 Yann>   - lets assume Buildroot is used to build those programs;

 Yann>   - the GPL (as applied to _those_ programs, not Buildroot) mandates
 Yann>     that the script to control compilation and installation of those
 Yann>     programs be made available (section of GPLv2);

 Yann>   - so the easiest way to comply with those programs' GPL is to
 Yann>     distribute the Buildroot tree that was used to build the target
 Yann>     filesystem, since it does contain all required recipes (aka the
 Yann>     scripts of section 3 of the GPLv2)

 Yann>   - Buildroot is itself GPLv2, so by distributing the Buildroot tree, a
 Yann>     company has to release it under GPLv2.

Indeed.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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