[systemd-devel] [PATCH] hwdb: ship ids-update.pl & sdio.ids in the release tarballs.

[Michael Biebl]

2015-03-21 13:12 GMT+01:00 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl>:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 06:43:18PM -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
>> Hi Zbyszek,
>>
>> >>>>> On 16 March 2015 at 23:15, Marcel Holtmann <marcel at holtmann.org> wrote:
>> >>>>>> Hi Dimitri,

>> >> Just tell patch or git to skip the hunks modifying ids-update.pl and sdio.ids. Problem solved.
>> >
>> > I'll apply the patch, but with a slightly different motivation.
>> >
>> > [L]GPL requires commercial entities distributing a modified version of
>> > the program to provide full source in the preferred form for modification,
>> > including all scripts used for building. This includes sdio.ids and
>> > ids-update.pl. We should make it easy to follow the our licensing, so
>> > we should include those files in our tarball to make it directly
>> > redistributable.
>>
>> that is just making stuff up.
> Where was I wrong?
>
>> Are you now also including usb.ids?
> We probably should
>

Right, we should include all source files, not only the generated files.


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