[Buildroot] Wrong license information in package qt5quickcontrols2?

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Sat Apr 13 12:52:42 UTC 2019



On 11/04/2019 12:01, Steinhilber, Markus wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Arnout Vandecappelle [mailto:arnout at mind.be]
>>
>>  Note that the docs should only be mentioned if they are in fact installed on
>> the target. I'm not sure if that is the case here. Anyway, that's a separate
>> issue and in general we're not very consistent in that.
> 
> I looked into that. I can't find any documentation that is copied to the target - normally. However I think
> you could use a build parameter to build and install the examples and these are licensed under FDL. I don't
> know what's the 'buildroot' way to do in such case. I think it might be better to list an unnecessary license than
> to miss one.

 OK, so we *could* conditionally add the FDL license based on whether or not the
examples are selected, but I don't really think that is necessary. So just keep
FDL unconditinoally.

> 
>>
>>  Oh and I also checked that both 5.6 and 5.12 have the same license - that's not
>> always the case either.
>>
>>  So, feel free to send a patch to fix this!
> 
> I wanted to. But then I found out that 5.6.3 does not include a GPLv2 license file, although in the source files they
> have GPLv2 in the headers. Is it Ok, to mention that it's GPLv2 without supplying an actual license file for it?
> It's not very good, but I think it's better than to show the wrong license.

 Yes it's OK. Add a comment above it in the .mk file to make it explicity that
it is missing.

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> I think the reason this is the way it is, is because qtquickcontrols2 was officially only introduced in Qt 5.7.
> In the 5.6 docs there is no info on them. Also the current docs say "The module was introduced in Qt 5.7."
> 
> Regards,
> Markus Steinhilber
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