Romain Beauxis wrote: > Le Monday 02 June 2008 04:04:51 Hannu Savolainen, vous avez écrit : > >>> First of all, concerning the licence: >>> * Is it the whole code GPLed ? (naive question) >>> I mean that even if the global licence is GPL, there could be other parts >>> which are not GPL. This could also include the documentation that could >>> be GFDL for instance.. Those licencing questions are very important for >>> an inclusion, and often thake time to check (and are really boring too), >>> so your help is welcome here :) >>> >>> >> There are some closed source packages in OSS but they are not included >> in the tarballs. So all drivers included in the GPL source package are >> under GPL. Some header files and/or sample programs may be under the BSD >> license but all this code is for user land only. >> > > Well, that's what I was afraid of.. The debian/copyright file has to report > each file's licence if it differs from main licence. I means I'll have to go > through each of them to check the licence.. > There is no need for that. Just don't include anything that is located under the tutorials/ or utils/ subdirectories. All the other files are under GPL. > > >>> Then module-assistant would unpack the tarball >>> in /usr/src/modules/oss4-modules, build them there and create a debian >>> package from the resulting modules. That way, the user obtain also a .deb >>> for the modules, which can be removed, upgraded etc.. >>> >>> Would it be possible ? >>> >>> >> The main problem when installing OSS4 in Linux is that that the kernel >> development environment (kernel-headers, gcc, binutils, etc) needs to be >> installed in the target system. This is something I would like to get >> fixed. So (IMHO) including anything that needs to be compiled in the >> .deb files is not good idea. >> > > Well, compiling on the user's system is the standard way to distribute > external kernel modules in debian. In particular, module-assistant does > exactly the job of installing the kernel devel. environment. > Ok.
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