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Re: [proposal] image license analysis

 

Hi James,

The TSC looked early on at the Linaro Membership Rules and established our
license selection process here:
https://wiki.linaro.org/TSC/LicenseSelection

I recommend talking to Paul McKenney, who looked at the Membership Rules and
put the process together. He now manages the process too

Stephen

On 20 January 2011 20:59, James Westby <james.westby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Alexander, can you amend this as needed? Who are the stakeholders that
> we should talk to?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
> Stakeholders: Alexander Sack?
> Deadlines: ASAP
> Estimated work: ?
> Contact: Alexander Sack
> Summary: Concerns of various companies about the use of some licenses
> (GPL-3 in particular) means that they wish to know which licenses make
> up each of our deliverables. For Ubuntu-based images and hardware packs
> this is fairly tricky. We wish to have an automated process that
> identifies the licenses that are part of the images, and can detect
> changes.
> References: FOSSology: http://www.fossology.org/about_us
> OEM have something along these lines.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
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