From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ol2cU-0004nq-6E for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:33:12 +0200 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ol2by-00061M-8h for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:32:34 +0200 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:32:34 +0200 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:32:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:32:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20100816132317.GA7983@zlo.nu> <20100816140055.GB7983@zlo.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100718 Shredder/3.0.7pre In-Reply-To: <20100816140055.GB7983@zlo.nu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: cleaning recipes X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:33:12 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFMaWgWMkyGM64RGpERAg6PAJ4+ANeicD6Iwz5VOFF7FXwBNIdtXgCeMZKK Ue6O0IThYTeDJ8RcCKbwIjE= =Rn2H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----