[Buildroot] [PATCH 06/21 RFC] package/gcc: add licensing information

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, All,

On 2015-11-17 12:28 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 23:47:01 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> >  GCC_VERSION = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_VERSION))
> > +GCC_LICENSE = \
> > +	GPLv2+, GPLv3+, LGPLv2.1+ (w/ exception), LGPv3+ (w/ exception), \
> > +	BSD-3c, MIT, BSL-1.0
> 
> What I dislike a bit with this is that we don't clearly differentiate
> what goes on the target with what remains on the host. For many
> companies, having GPLv3 or LGPLv3 stuff on the target is (unfortunately)
> a no-go, so it would be good to make this clearer.
> 
> As per your implementation, such license information will only be part
> of the "host packages" license information, while libgcc gets actually
> installed in the target. To be honest, I am not entirely sure how to
> handle this properly with our package infrastructure.

Yes, the current legalese will only apply to the host variant.

We could add a target gcc-final that defines the needed legal-info
stuff, but installs nothing (like I did so far with the host-gcc
package). But I don't like it much either.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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