[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] build: disable BUILD_PATENTED by default

[Yousong Zhou]

On 25 January 2018 at 19:30, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
<kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
>
>
>> On 25 Jan 2018, at 02:42, Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> config/Config-build.in | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/config/Config-build.in b/config/Config-build.in
>> index f9987fc..7ec7653 100644
>> --- a/config/Config-build.in
>> +++ b/config/Config-build.in
>> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ menu "Global build settings"
>>               default n
>>
>>       config BUILD_PATENTED
>> -             default y
>> +             default n
>>               bool "Compile with support for patented functionality"
>>               help
>>                 When this option is disabled, software which provides patented functionality
>> --
>> 1.8.3.1
>>
>>
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>
> The commit messages lacks a “Why we need this change”.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kevin D-B

Sorry, I thought the reason was very very apparent and the patch was
posted here mainly to serve as a prior notification to mitigate
possible surprise...

That said, the reason behind the change is that I think we are not
supposed to promote usage of and redistribute binaries of patented
code/technologies, for legal considerations I only vaguely "groked".
This seems to be the established practice with ffmpeg, flashplayer,
video card drivers, etc. with other linux distributions

Turning off BUILD_PATENTED by default is the first safe step.

                yousong