[Buildroot] [PATCH] pkg-infra: produce legal info for proprietary packages

Richard Braun rbraun at sceen.net
Sat Oct 20 21:55:47 UTC 2012


On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:51:00PM +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> This in confusing. In your previous e-mail dated Sep 20you quoted the
> "Intel Software License Agreement", that one is supposed to accept before
> downloading the package from the web page:

Confusing indeed.

> What hurts me a little is that, if intel-microcode turns out to be
> redistributable, we would have no use case in mainline Buildroot that
> makes use of such a feature to the legal-info code.

That's what troubles me as well. I don't want to introduce dead code.
But if you do it as you seem to have planned, then I won't worry about
it and just wait for the feature.

I'll try to get some clarification from Intel in the meanwhile. Thanks
for your answer.

-- 
Richard Braun



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