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Subject: Re: gnutls-2.12.14-r3.1 - strange rpm names yocto
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On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 12:22 +0200, Foinel wrote:
> Looking at gnutls-2.12.14/libextra/COPYING it says just GPLv3, so no
> dual licensing or exceptions of any kind for these extra libraries.
> Can anyone explain why in
> meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc it says:
> 
> # This is a list of packages that are used by the build system to
> build the distribution, they are not
> # directly part of the distribution..
> HOSTTOOLS_WHITELIST_GPLv3 ?= ""
> WHITELIST_GPLv3 ?= "less"
> LGPLv2_WHITELIST_GPLv3 ?= "libassuan gnutls libtasn1 libidn libgcc gcc-runtime"
> 
> Does this mean gnutls is some sort of a host tool?
> Because of this fact (gnutls being in LGPLv2_WHITELIST_GPLv3), then
> the restriction to avoid GPLv3 packages seems not applicable to
> gnutls. Does anyone know if gnutls is a special case in what concerns
> the licensing?

I think we were only including GPLv2 pieces of gnutls in most images. If
something is now pulling in the -extras package, we have a problem. It
sounds like we should remove it from the whitelist.

Cheers,

Richard