Hi,

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 08:35:19AM +0000, Alm, Michael wrote:
> currently I'm struggling with our legal department around the license report 
> automatically generated by ptxdist. During that process we stumbled upon an 
> ambiguity. Let me illustrate the problem using the kernel as an example, but 
> it applies to other packages, as well.
> 
> In the license report, for the kernel it says the name, version, license 
> [identifier], url, md5 and the license text. The reader gets the impression 
> that this specific kernel version, based on the sources specified via the 
> url, is used in the image/product. But actually it's not! Actually the kernel 
> sources are modified using the patches before building.
> 
> The license (GPLv2) requires us to state, that we modified the kernel. 
> Furthermore, it requires us to state what these modifications are. Therefore 
> we would like to provide a list of all the patches applied to the kernel (and 
> other packages of course) in the respective package section in the license 
> report. We believe it would be sufficient, to state the names of the patches, 
> without complete path or content.
> 
> Is there a way to achieve that currently with ptxdist?
> If not, do you think it is possible at all?
> Does anybody out there on the mailing list have a solution for that?

Take a look at scripts/lib/ptxd_make_world_license.sh. You can overwrite
the individual functions in the BSP. I guess you will need to change the
generated latex code to include the series file or something like that.

Michael

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