[Buildroot] Buildroot and GPL compliance

Luca Ceresoli luca at lucaceresoli.net
Mon Dec 19 21:08:37 UTC 2011


Hi Stephan,

Stephan Hoffmann wrote:
>> Technically, the only solution I see is to add 'prominent notices' to
>> modified files in our own repository, but manually remove them when
>> submitting patches to the buildroot list. This is annoying but may be
>> the only legal possibility. How do others see this?
> I think we should try to find out how other projects handle this or how
> lawyers or GNU comment on this.

Sounds like a good idea. I think the FSF provides free (as in beer)
consultancy to free (as in speech) software projects of some importance.
It might be worth trying, after we have focused on a few precise
questions.

Luca



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