Hello, IMHO the proposal by Markus makes sense. I have had the same issues with collecting license texts in the past. So a solution integrated in PTXdist would be great. Because then it would be possible to collect the license texts depending on the config options of a package (sometimes plugins have a different license).
Hubert 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 >>> >>> -- >>> ptxdist mailing list >>> [email protected] >> >> >> > > > -- > ptxdist mailing list > [email protected] -- ptxdist mailing list [email protected]
