From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-yh0-f54.google.com ([209.85.213.54]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UJoSm-00056t-Iy for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:12:09 +0100 Received: by mail-yh0-f54.google.com with SMTP id 29so317751yhr.41 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:55:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tvIQqvs12tOVnwfz79LmD5AfeACTKQ6CMd+ubXIczHo=; b=DsfP2KpLbBfa1GETqOVN69YSVUIyu8tNb4FNu1etnRyhu/wvkPmyv1sTMu7esmSfuN bA7LKglXae1ovTd0iNaBlYQSY66jHoDDhUG4Z9/4A2aQ0KVK/Yoh90r5/y1ljd6IwcEZ yrcXKS1oJj2F8jzKYfAHXIlL+4m2qAGz7sGUm8Ihp2n60mwP1KS+rcSarYY/qSnK6jyy TCe815ua1xspbl8H5o7kMn/PpT7rBJvWyaawW0gesU/hDWe9eYbAJs0JRpQA2S5E+hSK oE2lbJy8AkRmaYU7KQ6lrdZqCiEtd5LjaPQWoedC38rjn1CsLGVzG3Z0wuPz39+z4V47 syxg== X-Received: by 10.236.114.35 with SMTP id b23mr5345104yhh.0.1364144111091; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:55:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goober.local ([75.76.228.60]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j27sm14225888yhf.10.2013.03.24.09.55.09 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:55:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <514F2FED.70603@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:55:09 -0500 From: John Weber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org References: <1364070660-13157-1-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <1364070660-13157-2-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <20130324160139.12fbb4d7@e6520eb> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] linux-firmware: Do not deploy license files in packages X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:12:09 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Showing my ignorance here, but is a manifest created with all of the packaged licenses? Is it possible for the developer to ship that if they see fit? I think what Otavio was trying to do was to keep /lib/firmware from being cluttered with license files. At least, that is the benefit as I see it. On 3/24/13 10:42 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Eric Bénard wrote: >> Hi Otavio, >> >> Le Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:30:58 -0300, >> Otavio Salvador a écrit : >>> We don't ship license files with packages and firmware packages are no >>> different; drop them. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador >> >> there may be a good reason to distribute the license files together with >> the firmware's binairies : it's often requested by the firmware's >> license. >> >> For example in bcm43xx >> 2. Restrictions. Licensee shall distribute Software with a copy >> of this Agreement. > > In this case we'll need to have a -license package for each license as > we often have more than one fw covered by same license. I'd like to > someone to comment on this so I can send a patch to fix it. > > -- > Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems > E-mail: otavio@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br > Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core >