[Buildroot] [PATCH] core/legal-info: allow ignoring packages from the legal-info
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat Oct 15 15:45:47 UTC 2016
Luca, All,
On 2016-10-15 17:40 +0200, Luca Ceresoli spake thusly:
> On 15/10/2016 17:32, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Peter, All,
> >
> > On 2016-10-15 17:13 +0200, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
> >>
> >> > It might be necessary to not even mention a package in the output of
> >> > legal-info:
> >>
> >> > - virtual packages have virtually nothing to save in the legal-info
> >> > output;
> >>
> >> > - for proprietary packages, it might not even be legal to even
> >> > mention them, being under NDA or some other such restrictive
> >> > conditions.
> >>
> >> > Introduce the new FOO_GEN_LEGAL_INFO variable that a package can set
> >> > to 'NO' (default to 'YES') to indicate that the package should be
> >> > completely ignored from the legal-info output, in which case the
> >> > package is not mentioned in the maniufest, its source archive,
> >> > patches and license files are not saved into legal-info/ .
> >>
> >> Couldn't / shouldn't the 2nd part already be handled by
> >> <foo>_REDISTRIBUTE = NO and/or <foo>_LICENSE = PROPRIETARY?
> >
> > No, because for a proprietary license, you may still have to at least
> > list it in the manifest.
> >
> > For example, the nvidia-driver package has a proprietary license, is not
> > redistributable, but we must still list it in the manifest.
> >
> > I'll update the commit log accordingly. Thanks! ;-)
>
> I suggest listing the three possible cases:
>
> * FOO_GEN_LEGAL_INFO = NO: save nothing
> * FOO_GEN_LEGAL_INFO = YES, FOO_REDISTRIBUTE = NO: list only
> * FOO_GEN_LEGAL_INFO = YES, FOO_REDISTRIBUTE = NO: list + save source
>
> Maybe in the manual as well?
ACK.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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