minimal image without GPLv3

minimal image without GPLv3

[Robert Berger]

Hi,

I am yocto-izing people again and someone asked how to build a minimal
Yocto image without GPLv3 components.

I said like this[1]

1. Comment out the EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES line
2. Set INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE = "GPL-3.0 LGPL-3.0 AGPL-3.0"

... and indeed a core-image-minimal was built with alternative packages
like busybox instead of bash ...

but it did not run on qemu due to some kernel issues.

I did not investigate it further, but is this s known problem?

Regards,

Robert


[1]
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Re: minimal image without GPLv3

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Robert,

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:21:34 Robert Berger wrote:
> I am yocto-izing people again and someone asked how to build a minimal
> Yocto image without GPLv3 components.
> 
> I said like this[1]
> 
> 1. Comment out the EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES line
> 2. Set INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE = "GPL-3.0 LGPL-3.0 AGPL-3.0"
> 
> ... and indeed a core-image-minimal was built with alternative packages
> like busybox instead of bash ...
> 
> but it did not run on qemu due to some kernel issues.
> 
> I did not investigate it further, but is this s known problem?

Not that I know of - and on the face of it it seems unlikely that this would 
be related, unless perhaps the bootloader changed - most of the parts that are 
switched out under these circumstances are part of userspace; the tools used 
to build the kernel should be the same.

In any event this sort of thing shouldn't happen. Could you perhaps file a bug 
for this with more details?

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
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