[Buildroot] [PATCH 6 of 6 v2] legal info: update documentation with split target/host output

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Mon Nov 11 11:57:33 UTC 2013


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire
<patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
>
> ---
> v2: new patch
>
>  docs/manual/legal-notice.txt |  15 +++++++++------
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/manual/legal-notice.txt b/docs/manual/legal-notice.txt
> --- a/docs/manual/legal-notice.txt
> +++ b/docs/manual/legal-notice.txt
> @@ -39,16 +39,19 @@ There you will find:
>  * +buildroot.config+: this is the Buildroot configuration file that is usually
>    produced with +make menuconfig+, and which is necessary to reproduce the
>    build.
> -* The source code for all packages; this is saved in the +sources/+
> -  subdirectory (except for proprietary packages, whose source code is not
> -  saved);
> -  patches applied to some packages by Buildroot are distributed with the
> -  Buildroot sources and are not duplicated in the +sources/+ subdirectory.
> -* A manifest file listing the configured packages, their version, license and
> -  related information.
> +* The source code for all packages; this is saved in the +sources/+ and
> +  +host-sources/+ subdirectories for target and host packages respectively.
> +  The source code for packages that set +<PKG>_REDISTRIBUTE = NO+ will not be
> +  saved.
> +  Patches applied to some packages by Buildroot are distributed with the
> +  Buildroot sources and are not duplicated in the +sources/+ and +host-sources/+
> +  subdirectories.
> +* A manifest file (one for host and one for target packages) listing the
> +  configured packages, their version, license and related information.
>    Some of this information might not be defined in Buildroot; such items are
>    marked as "unknown".
> -* A +licenses/+ subdirectory, which contains the license text of packages.
> +* The license texts of all packages, in the +licenses/+ and +host-licenses/+
> +  subdirectories for target and host packages respectively.
>    If the license file(s) are not defined in Buildroot, the file is not produced
>    and a warning in the +README+ indicates this.
>
> @@ -72,7 +75,7 @@ License abbreviations
>  ---------------------
>
>  Here is a list of the licenses that are most widely used by packages in
> -Buildroot, with the name used in the manifest file:
> +Buildroot, with the name used in the manifest files:
>
>  * `GPLv2`:
>    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html[

This patch, together with the first one in this series, are the only
ones that still need a review, all others have been Acked by Luca.

It would be great if this could get in 2013.11...

Thanks a lot,
Thomas


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