From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] help2man-native: Add 1.36.4 (GPLv2) and 1.38.2 (GPLv3)
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:47:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1310770022.20015.1257.camel@rex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E20BF61.3020901@mentor.com>
On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 15:29 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 07/15/2011 03:24 PM, Saul Wold wrote:
> > On 07/15/2011 03:03 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >> These are 'side ports' of current oe.dev versions. PR is kept in sync
> >> but we drop out the target recipes in order to punt on potential perl
> >> problems.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini<tom_rini@mentor.com>
> >> ---
> >> .../help2man/help2man-native_1.36.4.bb | 26
> >> ++++++++++++++++++++
> >> .../help2man/help2man-native_1.38.2.bb | 24
> >> ++++++++++++++++++
> >> 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >> create mode 100644
> >> meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.36.4.bb
> >> create mode 100644
> >> meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.38.2.bb
> >>
> >
> > Why do we need both versions? Can't we just use the most current?
>
> For the "I want no GPLv3" crowd. This is a little more clear in oe.dev
> where we also build for the target but yes, different legal departments
> have different GPLv3 concerns so I think it makes sense in this case still.
We support limited GPLv2 functionality for the target. We don't do this
for the build tools since the compiler is GPLv3 for a start. We also
don't cover target development tools.
So I don't think we need the old version...
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-15 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-15 22:03 [PATCH 0/5] Optionally trade required_utils for -native builds Tom Rini
2011-07-15 22:03 ` [PATCH 1/5] mercurial-native: Add 1.9 version Tom Rini
2011-07-15 22:14 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-15 22:22 ` Tom Rini
2011-07-15 22:03 ` [PATCH 2/5] bitbake.conf, sanity.bbclass: Make mercurial-native optional Tom Rini
2011-07-15 22:03 ` [PATCH 3/5] help2man-native: Add 1.36.4 (GPLv2) and 1.38.2 (GPLv3) Tom Rini
2011-07-15 22:24 ` Saul Wold
2011-07-15 22:29 ` Tom Rini
2011-07-15 22:41 ` Saul Wold
2011-07-15 22:47 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2011-07-15 22:48 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-15 22:53 ` Tom Rini
2011-07-18 22:13 ` Tom Rini
2011-07-19 12:17 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-19 14:18 ` Tom Rini
2011-07-15 22:03 ` [PATCH 4/5] sanity.bbclass: Add help2man-native to ASSUME_PROVIDED if found Tom Rini
2011-07-15 22:03 ` [PATCH 5/5] autotools.bbclass: Add help2man-native to the main DEPENDS tree Tom Rini
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