[Buildroot] [RFC 0/2] legal-info: split _LICENSE and _REDISTRIBUTE constants

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Sun Nov 4 16:41:14 UTC 2012


>>>>> "Luca" == Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net> writes:

 Luca> Hi,
 Luca> this small patchset implements the recent proposal to split the license
 Luca> description (<PKG>_LICENSE) from the fact that a package can be
 Luca> redistributed or not (<PKG>_REDISTRIBUTE).

 Luca> The idea is to let the _LICENSE do its work, i.e. simply describe the
 Luca> license, and add a new _REDISTRUBUTE parameter (defaulting to YES), to
 Luca> specify if the tarball must be copied or not.
 Luca> Defining the license and choosing whether or not to redistribute would
 Luca> become technically independent, which is more correct.

Committed both, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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