[OLPC-devel] GPL compliance for buildrom

[Mitch Bradley]

Excellent.  The only remaining task before "going live" with the upgrade 
procedure is a round of testing.

Who will bell the cat?  Jim, how many bells?  ( 57738.57734 40 )

Mitch


Jordan Crouse wrote:
> Since we will very shortly be making binary ROM images available for use, the
> GPL and common sense mandates that we make the source code for the component
> parts available as well.
>
> Thusly, we would like to let everyone know about http://dev.laptop.org/www/gpl.
> This is the complete list of source code that we use, plus a handy BOM that
> lists all the packages in the image along with its component parts.
>
> When we release the image, the GIT tree, the image and the BOM will all be
> tagged with the same version, so its clear what came from where by who.
>
> Along with this, a new target was pushed to the buildrom source: 'make bom'
> will create a fresh BOM based on the current set of tools.  Also, LinuxBIOS
> now creates a tarball of the SVN tree by default, for further traceability.
>
> Enjoy,
> Jordan
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