Re: [poky] [PATCH 0/2] GPLv2 versions of m4 & bison

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

Yes, these are alternative versions purely for licensing.  There is a target
"poky-image-basic" that is our goal for allowing both (modern) licensing, and
non-(L)GPLv3 licensing.  Anything outside (above and beyond) that is not part of
the plan.

The goal is to allow people to be able to produce a "basic", command line
oriented system that does not require (L)GPLv3 components.

(X is not part of the basic image, but X should be fine as well, since it's the
MIT-X licensing...)

--Mark

On 3/16/11 8:01 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 03/16/2011 03:03 PM, Nitin A Kamble wrote:
>> From: Nitin A Kamble<nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
>>
>> These commits adds GPLv2 versions of m4&  bison recipes.
>>
>> Pull URL: git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib.git
>>    Branch: nitin/misc
>>    Browse: http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=nitin/misc
>>
>> Thanks,
>>      Nitin A Kamble<nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
>> ---
>>
>>
>> Nitin A Kamble (2):
>>    bison: bring back GPLv2 version 2.3 of bison recipe
>>    m4: bring back GPLv2 version 1.4.9 of m4 recipe
>>
>>   .../bison/bison/bison-2.3_m4.patch                 |  590 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>   meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison_2.3.bb           |   35 ++
>>   meta/recipes-devtools/m4/m4-native_1.4.9.bb        |   12 +
>>   .../m4/m4/fix_for_circular_dependency.patch        |   75 +++
>>   meta/recipes-devtools/m4/m4_1.4.9.bb               |   18 +
>>   5 files changed, 730 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison/bison-2.3_m4.patch
>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison_2.3.bb
>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/m4/m4-native_1.4.9.bb
>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/m4/m4/fix_for_circular_dependency.patch
>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/m4/m4_1.4.9.bb
>>
> 
> Was this purely for licensing reasons?  (just asking since there was no discussion on this list)
>