RFC script to find package licenses
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Cover letter [Buildroot] [RFC 0/2] script to find package licenses
Hi Thomas,
Quoted 9 lines · Thomas Petazzoni
Hello,
Thanks for this proposal. However, there are already some tools that do the same thing I believe. I'm thinking especially at the tools used by the Fossology project (https://www.fossology.org/). It is surely more complicated to install and use that your Python script, but it is also a lot more complete, and even more importantly: maintained by other people.
Intention of script is to help us to verify or correct legal info that we add in .mk file. This could be a handy tool that can be used by anyone when we do version bump or add new package. The complex tools that are available are generally used by upstream package providers for Open Source Compliance which provide lot more information than just file license. And integrating such tools in Buildroot might be difficult. But in Buildroot where we just need license of a package, script could be useful as a starting point.
Regards,
Rahul