Re: [yocto] can all of the licensing discussion be centralized in an appendix?

2012-03-29 Thread Rudolf Streif
Scott, That's great. The dev manual is very comprehensive and at the right level of detail. I think many new as well as more experienced users of YP will appreciate it. From a quick read the only suggestion I have for now is to place the section on Customizing Images before the section on Adding

Re: [yocto] can all of the licensing discussion be centralized in an appendix?

2012-03-29 Thread Rifenbark, Scott M
Rudi, Thanks for taking the time to look this stuff over. I will place customizing images ahead of adding packages in the dev manual. I will dig into the other issues and see what I can get in the way of information from the development team. Scott From: rstr...@linuxfoundation.org

[yocto] can all of the licensing discussion be centralized in an appendix?

2012-03-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
still clawing my way through the ref manual and it seems that there's *way* too much coverage of licensing sprinkled throughout. most people are not going to care about licensing until the time comes to maybe start distributing their BSP. as it stands, in the *development* version of the ref

Re: [yocto] can all of the licensing discussion be centralized in an appendix?

2012-03-26 Thread Rifenbark, Scott M
Is BSP licensing different than non-BSP licensing? If not, then licensing could be combined into a single section. Can someone answer this for me? Also, good point on the BSP guide appearing as a chapter in the reference manual. I have not liked this. Is there any rational reason to have it

Re: [yocto] can all of the licensing discussion be centralized in an appendix?

2012-03-26 Thread Tom Zanussi
On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 14:26 +, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote: Is BSP licensing different than non-BSP licensing? If not, then licensing could be combined into a single section. Can someone answer this for me? The focus of those sections are different and should probably be in separate

Re: [yocto] can all of the licensing discussion be centralized in an appendix?

2012-03-26 Thread Rudolf Streif
there's *way* too much coverage of licensing sprinkled throughout. most people are not going to care about licensing until the time comes to maybe start distributing their BSP. The ability of collecting licensing information, tracking license changes and providing the license information

Re: [yocto] can all of the licensing discussion be centralized in an appendix?

2012-03-26 Thread Rifenbark, Scott M
Rudi, I would like you to examine the latest documents (the ones under development). I have added some new licensing information and would like your feedback for this upcoming version. There are licensing discussions in both the latest versions of the BSP Guide and the reference manual.

Re: [yocto] can all of the licensing discussion be centralized in an appendix?

2012-03-26 Thread Rudolf Streif
Scott, ** http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html . ** ** Yes, I looked at that one but I now noticed that I referenced it incorrectly. This is the latest version, however, in the revision history it shows Revision 1.1, October 6, 2011, Released

Re: [yocto] can all of the licensing discussion be centralized in an appendix?

2012-03-26 Thread Rifenbark, Scott M
Rudi, Great comments! Thanks very much. I will immediately update the revision history tables to show the 1.2 release as WIP. Not having it there did cause you confusion. Good suggestion. Regarding your other observations. If you have the time I would appreciate you looking at the YP