[Buildroot] [PATCH] core/legal-info: allow ignoring packages from the legal-info

[Yann E. MORIN]

Peter, All,

On 2016-10-15 17:13 +0200, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
> 
>  > It might be necessary to not even mention a package in the output of
>  > legal-info:
> 
>  >   - virtual packages have virtually nothing to save in the legal-info
>  >     output;
> 
>  >   - for proprietary packages, it might not even be legal to even
>  >     mention them, being under NDA or some other such restrictive
>  >     conditions.
> 
>  > Introduce the new FOO_GEN_LEGAL_INFO variable that a package can set
>  > to 'NO' (default to 'YES') to indicate that the package should be
>  > completely ignored from the legal-info output, in which case the
>  > package is not mentioned in the maniufest, its source archive,
>  > patches and license files are not saved into legal-info/ .
> 
> Couldn't / shouldn't the 2nd part already be handled by
> <foo>_REDISTRIBUTE = NO and/or <foo>_LICENSE = PROPRIETARY?

No, because for a proprietary license, you may still have to at least
list it in the manifest.

For example, the nvidia-driver package has a proprietary license, is not
redistributable, but we must still list it in the manifest.

I'll update the commit log accordingly. Thanks! ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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