From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@gmail.com>,
OE Core mailing list <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: Is HOSTTOOLS_WHITELIST_GPL-3.0 ever used?
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:21:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1459430496.21672.65.camel@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ86T=U_-bZ1J08wmxsPGpNP+yH7U9WAYY0eDjtfb3tW9Lh+tA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 18:10 -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> Support for HOSTTOOLS_WHITELIST_GPL-3.0 (originally named
> GPLv3_HOSTTOOLS_WHITELIST) was first added here:
>
> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=179e056519
> c5ad761b2d942d7196664874c155e4
>
> The implementation in base.bbclass has been tweaked a few times since
> then, but even in the original, it looks like license checking was
> skipped for native recipes (and anything else which could be
> described
> as a "host tool"), so providing a whitelist of specific host tools
> looks redundant. The current version does the same.
>
> Does anyone know how HOSTTOOLS_WHITELIST_GPL-3.0 is intended to be
> used or when it might be necessary?
>
> Any objections to a patch to remove it?
Not from me...
Cheers,
Richard
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2016-03-31 1:10 Is HOSTTOOLS_WHITELIST_GPL-3.0 ever used? Andre McCurdy
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