Licensing Question

[Vernon Mauery]

On 08-Aug-2018 03:45 PM, Patrick Venture wrote:
>So, I've spent the last hour trying to submodule my way to using
>ipmitool.  I've managed to get it compiling for just the one file I

Okay, I'll bite. What are you trying to use ipmitool for?

>need (or want).  However, then I try to link it and then more failures
>for things that are missing, such as helper methods.  So, then I add
>the file that has those, and then it doesn't compile because that file
>doesn't compile.  This is of course, not compiling with the -Werror
>flag among other things with gcc.

I think Alexander is working on getting ipmitool to compile without 
warnings upstream. That is quite the task though; he inherited a lot of 
warnings. :)

>So, I can keep battling this, or I can ask -- the license for the
>ipmitool just says I need to keep a copy of the license with the
>source if I reuse it.  So, I can do that, and I can hack it up to work
>-- but where I'm curious is -- how does that impact the license of
>phosphor-ipmi-flash?

This is where the lawyers start to smile....

>(Some of the things where gcc is complaining, I can go ahead and
>submit patches to fix.)
>
>Patrick