[meta-freescale] [fsl-community-bsp-base][PATCH v2] setup-environment: Update pre-EULA language to support older licenses.

[Otavio Salvador]

Dear Lauren,

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Lauren Post <Lauren.Post at freescale.com> wrote:
> Regardless, patch must be reverted or it causes build breaks on legacy patches.
>
> We can think of another solution for Yocto 1.9 but current patch will not work.

The Stefan patch shouldn't be reverted.  He kindly provided the two
other patches to fix the build failure and I succeed in building the
legacy binaries we have in use now.

When Daiane, Yi and I, back in 2011 and 2012, had all discussions with
Freescale legal's team to find a more user-friendly 'click-through'
way the current mechanism has been proposed, reviewed and approved.  I
understand Freescale is planning changes in this regard but those
changes need to be properly proposed and reviewed, and most important,
those change must not impact the bugfixes needed today.

I understand the legal terms can change, but the patches you are
proposing does not really align with what you are saying the change
is.

If the Freescale legal's team is going to require multi-EULA support
for future releases, a new EULA mechanism must be proposed and
reviewed, and all the needed information must be shared with community
in order to get this on the same level to the current technical
solution.  We cannot blindly accept something we cannot have a full
view.

Any proposed multi-EULA system must provide, at least:

a proper "click-through" mechanism for each EULA (as I still didn't
see where is said in the EULA that it covers future and previous
versions of it) or clearly state this mechanism is not needed anymore.
do not reinvent the wheel for license management as the Yocto Project
has the mechanisms to handle this accordingly and it has been evolving
since its creation in 2010 so there is no good reason to not reuse all
this background experience from the community with a homemade
solution.

When we had this discussion with the Freescale legal's team, back in
2011, it was clear that they have some difficulties to understand all
those technical details and it took a considerable time to make them
to proper understand all the implications and details. I fear you'll
need to pass all the pain we passed back then, once again.

Regards,

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