[yocto] can all of the licensing discussion be centralized in an appendix?

Mon Mar 26 07:26:24 PDT 2012

Is BSP licensing different than non-BSP licensing?  If not, then licensing could be combined into a single section.  Can someone answer this for me?

Also, good point on the BSP guide appearing as a chapter in the reference manual.  I have not liked this.  Is there any rational reason to have it this way?

Scott

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From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 5:53 AM
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Subject: [yocto] can all of the licensing discussion be centralized in an appendix?

  still clawing my way through the ref manual and it seems that
there's *way* too much coverage of licensing sprinkled throughout.
most people are not going to care about licensing until the time comes
to maybe start distributing their BSP.

  as it stands, in the *development* version of the ref manual,
section 3.4 is all about licensing, then ch 4 is essentially the BSP
guide where section 4.2.1 is "License Files" and all of section 4.3 is
"BSP Licensing Considerations."

  that just seems like too much licensing info that breaks up the flow
of the reference manual.  can all of that be moved to one location and
referenced from there?

rday

p.s.  i'm also not keen on an entire chapter of the ref manual being
nothing more than an include of the BSP guide.  if you've got a
perfectly respectable BSP guide, there's no point having it magically
appear as part of another manual.  but that's just my $0.02.

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