From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:02:06 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 6/6] package/mtools: new host-package In-Reply-To: <20130310124944.261867c4@skate> References: <296699691239a90d5118c5cbe72f1ff57b3761a5.1362693294.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <20130310124944.261867c4@skate> Message-ID: <201303110102.06732.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'