Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of BitBake build tool - savannah.nongnu.org

[Chris Larson]

Greetings,

* Jonathan Gonzalez V. (address@hidden) wrote:
> Can you give me a list of all the projects dependencies and the
> language programming you will use?

The current incarnation is written in python, and requires at least
version 2.3 to function.  Python, then, is its only real dependency.

> On the other hand, can you send me the source code project to my email
> account (address@hidden)? I wish to review your source code,
> even if it is not functional, to catch potential legal issues early. 

I've attached the current incarnation of the code.  Currently, the
beginning of each file references the COPYING files in the doc/ dir in
the source tree.  If this isn't sufficient, let me know.

The next incarnation (version 2.0, which will be under way shortly) is
to be written in C, but you needn't worry about that yet.

> For example, to release your program properly under the GPL you must
> include a copyright notice and permission-to-copy statements at
> the beginning of every file of source code.  This is explained in
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.  Our review would help catch
> potential omissions such as these.

Great, your review will certainly help.  I should mention that the
included metadata (configuration files, bbclasses with tasks to execute)
is licensed under MIT.

> > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> >
> >
> > Chris Larson <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > License: gpl
> > Other License: 
> > Package: BitBake build tool
> > System name: bitbake
> > Type: non-GNU
> >
> > Description:
> > BitBake is a simple tool for the execution of tasks/recipes. It is derived
> > from Portage, which is the package management system used by the Gentoo
> > Linux distribution. It is most commonly used to build packages, as it can
> > easily use its rudamentary inheritence to abstract common operations, such
> > as fetching sources, unpacking them, patching them, compiling them, and so
> > on.  It is the basis of the OpenEmbedded project, which is being used for
> > OpenZaurus, Familiar, and a number of other Linux distributions.

Thanks,
--
Chris Larson - kergoth at handhelds dot org
Linux Software Systems Engineer - clarson at ti dot com
OpenZaurus Project Maintainer - http://openzaurus.org/

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