[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.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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