From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 93-97-173-237.zone5.bethere.co.uk ([93.97.173.237] helo=tim.rpsys.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QMO2f-0001lR-Gt for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 19:26:45 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p4HHNphF018985 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 18:23:51 +0100 Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tim.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18928-02 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 18:23:48 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.3.10] ([192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p4HHNkCI018979 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 18:23:46 +0100 From: Richard Purdie To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer In-Reply-To: References: <4DD13B6F.4010009@intel.com> <1305575479.3424.102.camel@rex> <4DD18DA1.4080501@intel.com> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 18:23:45 +0100 Message-ID: <1305653025.3424.269.camel@rex> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rpsys.net Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Move Old Recipes to meta-extras X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 17:26:45 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 15:34 -0700, Khem Raj wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Saul Wold wrote: > > On 05/16/2011 12:51 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 10:08 -0700, Khem Raj wrote: > >>> > >>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Saul Wold wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On 05/15/2011 11:19 PM, Khem Raj wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On May 14, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Saul Wold wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> From: Saul Wold > >>>>>> > >>>>>> This proposes to move the YAFFS2-utils, older clutter-1.4 > >>>>>> and older GCC version (4.3.3 and 3.4.4) as they are unused > >>>>>> and currently unbuildable. > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Are we left with any GPLv2 version of gcc after this ? > >>>>> > >>>> Khem, > >>>> > >>>> Is not having a GPLv2 version of gcc an issue? For the non-gplv3 > >>>> version, my > >>>> understanding is to have an installed user-space for oe-core for a > >>>> non-development system, therefore gcc is not an issue. > >>>> > >>> > >>> there are certain parts of gcc which go onto target e.g. libgcc libstdc++ > >> > >> These have specific license exceptions allowing non-gpl code to use them > >> as system libraries though? > >> > > Richard is correct, there are exception for the runtime parts of GCC. > > Sorry Khem, I was not catching to original gist of the question. > > exceptions yes but they are not same exceptions between GPLv2 and GPLv3 gcc. Is there a problem here though? What impact are you concerned with? Cheers, Richard