Re: cleaning recipes

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

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On 16-08-10 16:00, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:43:10PM +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>> Hmm, the "guidelines" do not mention anything about licenses. Thus the
>>> only version you left of coreutils after
>>> 82dcd385984ba059b346a0e37fd3e14d536074ad is infected with GPLv3, while
>>> the older (6.0) GPLv2 version works fine for us.  I do not know
>>> whether other people mind about licenses, but we cannot use any GPLv3
>>> software in our image, because of its viral nature.
>>>
>>> Marc
>>
>> Valid point.
>> I did not consider licenses. Although the company I work for has no
>> problems with GPLv2, I understand your concern
>> What would be the most recent version of coreutils that is still using v2?
>> We can reinstate that one.
> 
> In the case of coreutils, that is 6.0.
> GPLv2 is ok here as well. The problem with GPLv3 here is that as soon as
> we incorporate some GPLv3 package we need to provide the abilitiy for
> customers to rebuild their image (Right to Tinker), which we cannot and
> will not do.

And the patent clause isn't fun if your company has tons of IP in that
area (like mine).

regards,

Koen
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