[Development] Repository Request: qt/licensing

[Simon Hausmann]

On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2018 15:31:17 CEST Kai Koehne wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Development [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=qt.io at qt-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 10:21 PM
> > To: development at qt-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [Development] Repository Request: qt/licensing
> > 
> > On Friday, 18 May 2018 18:18:02 -03 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > > Just for clarification: The official source packages contain the
> > > > licheck executables already. My aim is that a git checkout and the
> > > > source packages we provide contain the very same content.
> > > 
> > > I understand, but I'm asking you not to.
> > 
> > Here's something that would be acceptable:
> > 
> > Do create the qt/licensing repo but make it empty, or just a README file
> > or
> > whatever is necessary. This repository can live in qt-project.org and be
> > mirrored under github.com/qtproject.
> > 
> > In your internal infra, use a different repository branched off from the
> > public one, containing the licence checker binary and anything else you
> > may need. This repository should never be shared.
> 
> Well, the whole point of the exercise is to allow customers to configure Qt
> under commercial terms from git, so any non-shared git module doesn't help.
> 
> We can also ship licheck binaries independently of the git modules, and ask
> then customers to pass their location e.g. via a configure argument:
> 
>  configure -commercial -licheck /path/to/licheck  ...

Would it perhaps be possible for configure to just look in "well known" 
locations in the system where the online installer can place them (or place a 
file that contains the path to licheck) ?
 
> then all we have to add to qtbase is the .release-timestamp file to mark the
> date of a release.

Can you determine the time of the release from the release tag perhaps? git 
describe can be used to find the "nearest" tag and the tag has a date.
 

Simon