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[Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stephen,

this is not about the license selection for new software that we
write, but rather license documentation of what licenses are in our
base system derived from ubuntu (and other linux OS that are based on
the "normal" GNU stack).

James: list me and TSC (in general) as a stakeholder for now.

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Stephen Doel <stephen.doel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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 - Alexander