From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5708D4C8109B for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:33:35 -0600 (CST) Received: from ALA-MAIL03.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-mail03 [147.11.57.144]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p0JLXUH2009519; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:33:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from ala-mail06.corp.ad.wrs.com ([147.11.57.147]) by ALA-MAIL03.corp.ad.wrs.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:33:30 -0800 Received: from Macintosh-5.local ([172.25.36.226]) by ala-mail06.corp.ad.wrs.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:33:30 -0800 Message-ID: <4D3758A8.1010805@windriver.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:33:28 -0600 From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Purdie References: <20F0A899-BE2B-4743-B435-7B9C64AD501C@dominion.thruhere.net> <4D374390.5040500@windriver.com> <1295472284.14388.23266.camel@rex> In-Reply-To: <1295472284.14388.23266.camel@rex> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Jan 2011 21:33:30.0167 (UTC) FILETIME=[83E7EC70:01CBB820] Cc: Paul Eggleton , poky@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] util-linux: split out libuuid and libblkid X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:33:35 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 >