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

[John Weber]

Showing my ignorance here, but is a manifest created with all of the packaged 
licenses?  Is it possible for the developer to ship that if they see fit?

I think what Otavio was trying to do was to keep /lib/firmware from being 
cluttered with license files.  At least, that is the benefit as I see it.


On 3/24/13 10:42 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> 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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