[OE-core] [PATCH 2/4] linux-firmware: Do not deploy license files in packages

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Sun Mar 24 15:42:29 UTC 2013


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com> wrote:
> Hi Otavio,
>
> Le Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:30:58 -0300,
> Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> a écrit :
>> We don't ship license files with packages and firmware packages are no
>> different; drop them.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
>
> there may be a good reason to distribute the license files together with
> the firmware's binairies : it's often requested by the firmware's
> license.
>
> For example in bcm43xx
> 2.      Restrictions. Licensee shall distribute Software with a copy
> of this Agreement.

In this case we'll need to have a -license package for each license as
we often have more than one fw covered by same license. I'd like to
someone to comment on this so I can send a patch to fix it.

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Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
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