Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Cc: Nico Erfurth <ne@×××××××××××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo Embedded and GPL Compliance
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:43:54
Message-Id: 200711211242.45678.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo Embedded and GPL Compliance by Nico Erfurth
1 On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Nico Erfurth wrote:
2 > My first thought was to provide a build-script and a portage overlay,
3 > containing all packages we had to patch. I think thats the most useable
4 > way, but it requires that the user has gentoo installed. But when
5 > someone takes the GPL strictly by the letter we would have to provide
6 > any sourcecode used to build every firmware-version. The problem here
7 > is, that not all .ebuilds stay in gentoo forever.
8
9 sure they do ... everything can be fetched from the web interface on
10 sources.g.o
11
12 then again, i'd question whether ebuilds fall under this area of having to be
13 provided ...
14 -mike

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