[Buildroot] [PATCH 6/6] package/mtools: new host-package

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, Luca, All,

On Sunday 10 March 2013 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Thu,  7 Mar 2013 22:55:31 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
> > +MTOOLS_VERSION  = 4.0.18
> > +MTOOLS_SOURCE   = mtools-$(MTOOLS_VERSION).tar.bz2
> > +MTOOLS_SITE     = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/mtools/
> 
> MTOOLS_LICENSE = GPLv3+
> MTOOLS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING

Done.

> However, this makes me realize that we don't distinguish host packages
> from target packages in the manifest.csv file. For example, once I had
> the licensing informations for this mtools file, I have the following
> line in my manifest.csv:
> 
> "mtools","4.0.18","GPLv3+","COPYING","mtools-4.0.18.tar.bz2"
> 
> And then, someone might think "damn, I have some GPLv3 software in my
> system, I now need to comply with the additional special requirements
> of GPLv3", while in fact it's not the case (as far as I know) because
> mtools is not distributed on the embedded device. Maybe we need to
> explicit which packages are on the target, which packages are on the
> host, and which packages are on both, no?

Yes, fully agreed; this would be very puzzling.

I would suggest that we not install licensing information about host
packages, unless they are also used on the target.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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