Hello Markus,
I'm no expert at this topic but here is how I would handle this:
1. Collect all existing files in state/<pkg>.license into a license
list. Example:
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -eq 0 -o ! -e $1/state ]; then
echo "usage: $0 <ptxdist_platform_dir>"
exit 1
fi
for file in $1/state/*.license ; do
pkg=${file##*/}
pkg=${pkg%%.*}
echo "$pkg: `cat $file`"
done
2. Build a tool that would go through this list and download/collect
the actual license texts.
i.e. very similar to what you already did, but outside of ptxdist.
Then if this can be easily done "outside" of ptxdist (as a separate
script) I guess that the real question is whether this is a desirable
feature to have in ptxdist itself. But this is something for the
ptxdist experts to decide :-)
Guillermo
2015-01-30 8:48 GMT+01:00 Markus Niebel <[email protected]>:
> Hello,
> Am 29.01.2015 um 21:23 schrieb Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If I understand correctly the auditing procedure before this patch would be:
>>
>> 1. Collect all existing files in state/<pkg>.license
>> 2. Each .license file contains the license name (e.g. "GPL") -- use
>> this to find the actual license text
>> 3. Audit each license
>>
>> What would be the difference after this patch?
>>
>
> My goal is to have a single place where the licenses of the target packages
> are collected (think of it like export_src for license information - license
> names and license text).
>
> Motivation:
> - Some packages have additional clauses to the license text (Qt for
> instances).
> So it would be a benefit to have the text from the package.
> - If you deliver binaries of a BSP (preinstalled or for download) some
> licenses
> force you to supply the license text with the binary
> - In some cases non developers need to look over the licenses
> - AFAIK other build tools (yocto, buildroot) has similar features
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Markus
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Guillermo
>>
>>
>> 2015-01-29 8:45 GMT+01:00 Markus Niebel <[email protected]>:
>>> Am 21.01.2015 um 09:12 schrieb Markus Niebel:
>>>> From: Markus Niebel <[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>> just as an RFC: it would be good to have above said features to ease
>>>> deployment and auditing.
>>>>
>>>> First patch implements this feature as an addon of the targetinstall
>>>> stage. Second patch shows the feature for a package that uses it's own
>>>> license
>>>>
>>>> TODO:
>>>> maybe targetinstall is not the right place, just in case the license
>>>> is altered during patching the package.
>>>>
>>>> Markus Niebel (2):
>>>> ptxdist: add license text extraction
>>>> icu: add LICENSE_TEXT
>>>>
>>>> rules/icu.make | 5 +++--
>>>> rules/post/ptxd_make_world_common.make | 1 +
>>>> scripts/lib/ptxd_make_xpkg_common.sh | 3 +++
>>>> scripts/lib/ptxd_make_xpkg_finish.sh | 11 +++++++++++
>>>> 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>> ping ...
>>>
>>> Any interest in this topic?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Markus
>>>
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