[Buildroot] Packages Missing License Information

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Hi Ryan,

Ryan Barnett <rjbarnet at rockwellcollins.com> schreef:
>All,
>
>With my recent submission of patches to fix missing license information, I 
>was curious to see how many packages are missing licensing information. I 
>have found that we are missing licensing information on 186 packages 
>according to my basic grep command. The command I used to get 186 is as 
>follows:
>
>git grep -L "_LICENSE" package/*/*.mk | wc -l
>
>Granted, this command isn't perfect and there are probably already some 
>packages that have license information defined in a subdirectory 
>(specifically thinking of gcc). However, I think that it gives a good idea 
>of how many packages are missing license files.
>
>I will try to update license information for these files as times permits 
>but I thought I would share the list of packages that I found don't have 
>license information for them. The command I used is:
>
>git grep -L "_LICENSE" package/*/*.mk | cut -d '/' -f2 | tr '\n' ' '
>
>The list of packages:
>
>acl alsamixergui at attr blackbox bmon bonnie bootutils bsdiff can-utils 
>cloop crosstool-ng cryptodev cvs dbus-glib dbus-python devmem2 dfu-util 
>dhrystone dmraid doom-wad eeprog efl elftosb explorercanvas ezxml fconfig 
>feh fis flac freescale-imx gadgetfs-test gcc genromfs giblib 
>glib-networking gob2 gptfdisk gqview grantlee gstreamer gstreamer1 
>gtk2-engines gtk2-themes gtkperf gvfs heirloom-mailx hwdata input-tools 
>iperf ipkg ipsec-tools irda-utils jpeg-turbo jpeg jsmin kexec latencytop 
>leafpad lesstif libaio libarchive libargtable2 libart libconfuse libedit 
>liberation libesmtp libev libevent libfreefare libftdi libgail libgeotiff 
>libglade libgtk2 libhid libical libiconv libiqrf libjpeg 
>liblog4c-localtime libmbus libmms liboauth libraw libraw1394 librsvg 
>libsvgtiny libsysfs libv4l libxml-parser-perl libyaml linux-fusion 
>linux-headers lite localedef logsurfer lpc3250loader lshw lsuio 
>luainterpreter lzma makedevs matchbox metacity mplayer mrouted musepack 
>nasm ndisc6 netplug network-manager nss-mdns ocf-linux open2300 opencv 
>opengl openocd pango pcmanfm perf powervr prboom proxychains-ng 
>python-distutilscross python-dpkt python-id3 python-m2crypto python-mad 
>python-nfc python-pygame python3 qt5 quota qwt radvd read-edid rpm 
>rsh-redone rsyslog rt-tests rtai rubix sane-backends sawman setserial 
>shared-mime-info slang socketcand sound-theme-borealis 
>sound-theme-freedesktop sqlcipher squashfs sredird sstrip 
>startup-notification statserial sunxi-boards sunxi-cedarx sunxi-mali-prop 
>sunxi-mali synergy sysklogd sysprof texinfo tftpd thttpd ti-utils 
>tinyhttpd torsmo transmission uclibc udpcast uemacs usbmount vtun webkit 
>webrtc-audio-processing whetstone x11r7 x11vnc xfsprogs xterm xvkbd yasm
>

It seems you are not aware of the package statistics at http://autobuild.buildroot.org/stats/

Best regards,
Thomas