[OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread bifferos
I'd like to provide a binary build of OpenWrt packages, however I want to comply with the terms of the GPL. I figured the most obvious thing to do would be to copy the way OpenWrt does things. I'm not convinced that OpenWrt complies with the GPL with regard to section 3, as I have no idea how

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread harish badrinath
Hello, On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:26 PM, bifferos wrote: > > as I have no idea how to >generate the packages in the snapshot from the > files in the 'sources' area, > and I haven't seen this documented anywhere. I could not clearly understand what you mean, but here is my understanding of the bui

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread bifferos
--- On Tue, 20/9/11, harish badrinath wrote: > UnlessĀ  upstream ships binary blobs, freedom to demand > "show me the > code" is AFAIK satisfied. I don't think you understood. I know how to build *a* version of OpenWrt. I don't know how to build *the* version that created a snapshot. The GPL s

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread edgar . soldin
On 20.09.2011 14:33, bifferos wrote: > So how do I know what version of packages was pulled in at the time of > building? I can assume the package source itself ends up in the 'dl' > directory, so I can back that up so I have the pristine package source, but > what about the patch set that was

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread edgar . soldin
On 20.09.2011 13:56, bifferos wrote: > > I'd like to provide a binary build of OpenWrt packages, however I want to > comply with the terms of the GPL. I figured the most obvious thing to do > would be to copy the way OpenWrt does things. I'm not convinced that OpenWrt > complies with the GPL

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread Bastian Bittorf
> I don't think you understood. I know how to build *a* version of > OpenWrt. I don't know how to build *the* version that created a > snapshot. If you "simply" want to be GPL-compliant, you can build your image and _then_ make an archiv of the hole builddir. so you have all downloaded sources f

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread Bastian Bittorf
> I don't think you understood. I know how to build *a* version of > OpenWrt. I don't know how to build *the* version that created a > snapshot. If you "simply" want to be GPL-compliant, you can build your image and _then_ make an archiv of the hole builddir. so you have all downloaded sources

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread bifferos
--- On Tue, 20/9/11, edgar.sol...@web.de wrote: > Did you see the first sentences of e.g. > http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1-rc5/README That source revision wasn't my concern. So let's see if I've got this right: 1) Check out correct revision as per instructions in release README

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread bifferos
--- On Tue, 20/9/11, Bastian Bittorf wrote: > If you "simply" want to be GPL-compliant, > you can build your image and _then_ make > an archiv of the hole builddir. so you have This is better than nothing, but I suspect won't fit on a single DVD :(. It is also unpleasant for the recipient, fo

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-09-20 5:08 PM, bifferos wrote: --- On Tue, 20/9/11, Bastian Bittorf wrote: If you "simply" want to be GPL-compliant, you can build your image and _then_ make an archiv of the hole builddir. so you have This is better than nothing, but I suspect won't fit on a single DVD :(. It is

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread Bastian Bittorf
> This is better than nothing, but I suspect won't fit on a single > DVD :(. It is also unpleasant for the recipient, for instance they i just tried to tar.bz2 my hole openwrt-dir including staging + dl: it nearly fits on a CD...(800mb). bye Bastian. _

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread Jo-Philipp Wich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Is that it? I don't understand how the systems works out to pull in > the correct feed version. I can understand how it works for tagged > feeds, e.g. svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/branches/packages_10.03.1 > but I don't get how it can work for > s

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread Michael Heimpold
Hi, > I can understand how it works for tagged feeds, e.g. > svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/branches/packages_10.03.1 hm, I think when you are using such a branch the result is still not every time the same since changesets are still merged to such a "stable" branch. The only thing you could consi

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread Conor O'Gorman
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 20:07 +0200, Michael Heimpold wrote: > The only thing you could consider stable is really a "tag", but > for packages I can't find any tag? It would be nice if there were a few more tags used for releases. Thanks, Conor ___ openwr

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread bifferos
--- On Tue, 20/9/11, edgar.sol...@web.de wrote: > From: edgar.sol...@web.de > Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance > To: "OpenWrt Development List" > Date: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011, 14:46 > On 20.09.2011 14:33, bifferos wrote: > > So how do

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance

2011-09-20 Thread bifferos
--- On Tue, 20/9/11, Michael Heimpold wrote: > From: Michael Heimpold > Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt GPL compliance > To: "OpenWrt Development List" > Date: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011, 19:07 > Hi, > > > I can understand how it works for tagged feeds