[Buildroot] [PATCH] core/web-legal-info: Generate html page with minimal legal info
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Wed Oct 30 22:21:17 UTC 2019
Arnout, All,
On 2019-10-30 11:19 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 30/10/2019 10:09, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > * python (version 2.7 or any later)
> The problem is: I would like to have some autobuilders without installed
> python. Since the autobuilders do run legal-info, that would not be possible...
Didn't we also conclude that, given that the autobuild scripts are
witten in python, it is thus forcibly present on an autobuilder
instance?
> > Also, have you had a look at Nicolas' alternate proposal, which is much
> > more lightweight and simple:
> > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2019-October/264344.html
> Note that that patch is missing a documentation update (which could be done in
> a separate patch).
And did not actually work for me, so might need refinement, or maybe I
was missing a few pre-requisites... Needs investigations
> > Such copyright identifiers are not required: the Berne Convention states
> > that the copyright is implicit, that is, a work does not have to carry a
> > copyright identifier to be properly copyrighted [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention].
>
> However, all open source licenses (GPL, BSD, MIT, ...) kind of require it,
> because they require to mention the authors. Some projects (e.g. CMake) keep an
> explicit list of authors in the top-level LICENSE file. Other projects just say
> "the FOO contributors". Oh, and REUSE [1] requires it as well. And finally:
> (almost?) all our existing scripts do have a copyright line.
Which is sad, because it is definitely not exhaustive, far from it,
while the git log is.
> > Also, as time passes, other contributors will modify this script. We do
> > not want to have a copyright identifier for each and every contribution
> > that will be made to this script. Especially since the git log keeps an
> > accurate authorship of all contributors.
> >
> > So I would suggest we do add such new copyright identifiers, and get rid
> > of the existing ones (as time passes).
>
> We should decide on a convention and stick to it :-)
Hey, I indeed meant "we should _not_ add any more". ;-)
But if the trend in the licensing galaxy is to require them, that's a
shame that we have to abide to this limitation, when we have better
technical solutions... :-(
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
> Regards,
> Arnout
>
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Yann E. MORIN.
>
> [1] https://reuse.software/
>
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