[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/simh: new package

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Tue Aug 16 14:29:50 UTC 2016


Hi Lothar,

As Yann marked this patch as rejected, this discussion is moot. But I'll 
respond below for future reference.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:31:10AM +0200, Lothar Felten wrote:
> On 16.08.2016 05:50, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > Looking into a random source file like sim_imd.c, the license seems to be 
> > MIT. See https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
> 
> Most files have a MIT-license/disclaimer, a few files reference GNU GPL
> (Intel-Systems/common/i8088.c), at least one file is paritally zlib/libpng
> license (sim_video.c, line 102), one file is "licensed under the standard
> SimH license" (PDP11/pdp11_kmc.c), which seems to be MIT.

In this case <PKG>_LICENSE should list all these licenses.

> There's a Word .doc file doc/simh.doc that states:
> 
> COPYRIGHT NOTICE: The following copyright notice applies to the SIMH source,
> binary, and documentation (an then: MIT license)
> 
> An older PDF version is online:
> http://simh.trailing-edge.com/pdf/simh_doc.pdf
> 
> Should I point to the simh.doc file?

I don't think so. Not sure how our legal info infra handles binary document 
formats. Instead you may put source files that contain respective licenses 
text in <PKG>_LICENSE_FILES.

baruch

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