Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Licence compliance - capturing all source files used to make a build?
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:10:20
Message-Id: 20120301162754.21884.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Licence compliance - capturing all source files used to make a build? by wireless
1 wireless wrote:
2 > It just seems like this question should be solved and already documented
3 > somewhere? With dozens (hundreds) of commercial linux distros, surely
4 > they list licenses for codes they include therein?
5
6 The license question is easy to answer using what goes into /var/db/pkg.
7
8 The next step is obviously to make sure that you are in compliance.
9 Part of that means being able to sometimes provide source code for
10 the binaries you have distributed. If those binaries include patches
11 added by portage build scripts then it's not sufficient to provide
12 the upstream tarball.
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15 //Peter