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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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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