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

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, All,

On 2015-11-17 22:25 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 22:15:49 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> It's not super nice indeed, but I don't really see a better option. We
> could always make this package actually do something "useful":
> installing the gcc libraries to the target. I.e essentially move the
> following part of host-gcc-final to this package:

Yes, I like that idea. Even if that makes the package a bit more
complex, it helps in separating the host/target/staging stuff (like what
we already discussed about hte extrenal toolchain, remember?).

[--SNIP--]
> This is really making the code more complicated just for the sake of
> legal-info, though. Which isn't super nice. But at least we would have
> the gcc libraries properly mentioned in the legal-info output for the
> target.

Yes, and that's a very good reason for doing it.

I'll send patches and we can discuss further with actual code.

Thanks! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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