Hi, On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:58:40PM +0000, Wolf, Matthias wrote: > is there a way to automaticaly retrieve the licence information of the > packages uses in the userland configuration of a ptxdist project? This > would be helpful to be in accordance with the licence terms to produce > the licence information in the binary distribution and/or > documentation (on target). > > I just tried to figure out a way to get this done - more or less - > automatically. I'm not sure if there is a better way - maybe kind of > blind... ;o) > > Does IPKG provide any kind of mechanism? RPM does - as fare as I > know...
We have a mechanism which collects the license information from the .make files and prints out a nice PDF document with the dependencies of the packets, in order to make paths from proprietary components to GPL code visible. However: - The patches are not ready for mainline yet and need a little bit more work before being pushed upstream. - Of course, there is no legal guarantees. The technical methods do only provide a mechanism to collect information; the actual reviewing is still a task for a lawyer. Sponsors for pushing the scripts upstream are welcome. Please contact me if you are interested. rsc -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- ptxdist mailing list ptxdist@pengutronix.de
