From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
To: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>, poky@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] util-linux: split out libuuid and libblkid
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:33:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3758A8.1010805@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295472284.14388.23266.camel@rex>
On 1/19/11 3:24 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 14:03 -0600, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> On 1/19/11 1:51 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> Tangent: have you considered switching to util-linux-ng?
>>>
>>> Op 19 jan 2011, om 17:55 heeft Paul Eggleton het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>>> Split libuuid and libblkid from util-linux into separate runtime packages.
>>>> Slightly reduces the overall footprint of other packages that depend on these
>>>> libraries.
>>
>> The util-linux-ng components are licensed GPLv3, so they could be alternatives,
>> but we need a GPLv2 version of the components for some systems.
>
> According to the license headers, only lscpu is GPLv3 and since we
> package that separately from everything else and clearly identify its
> license, we are currently using util-linux-ng for this purpose as things
> stand.
Ok good then, for some reason I thought various utilities have been moved to
GPLv3 (other then lscpu).. I must have been mistaken.
(and yes I agree changing the name would be a good idea, matching upstream
naming makes it much less confusing.)
--Mark
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-19 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-19 16:55 [PATCH 0/3] util-linux: split out libuuid and libblkid Paul Eggleton
2011-01-19 16:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] util-linux: split out libuuid and libblkid into separate packages Paul Eggleton
2011-01-19 19:13 ` Saul Wold
2011-01-20 10:15 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-01-21 3:15 ` Qing He
2011-01-19 16:55 ` [PATCH 2/3] gst-plugins-base: add util-linux to DEPENDS Paul Eggleton
2011-01-19 16:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] Bump PR on recipes that depend on util-linux Paul Eggleton
2011-01-19 19:51 ` [PATCH 0/3] util-linux: split out libuuid and libblkid Koen Kooi
2011-01-19 20:03 ` Mark Hatle
2011-01-19 21:24 ` Richard Purdie
2011-01-19 21:33 ` Mark Hatle [this message]
2011-01-19 21:50 ` Richard Purdie
2011-01-21 3:33 ` Qing He
2011-01-19 20:05 ` Bruce Ashfield
2011-01-19 20:06 ` Richard Purdie
2011-01-21 3:24 ` Qing He
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