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From: "Puustinen, Ismo" <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>
To: "openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org"
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>,
	"alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com"
	<alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] python3: make readline, gdbm, and db support conditional.
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 12:35:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1496925313.23488.6.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75435a83-d29b-4b68-3e27-90746b31c970@linux.intel.com>

On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 13:51 +0300, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 06/07/2017 04:49 PM, Ismo Puustinen wrote:
> > The three libraries' (readline, gdbm, and db) licenses belong to
> > the
> > GPLv3 family. Add them to to PACKAGECONFIG so they can be switched
> > off
> > if the licensing doesn't allow using them. Python build system
> > autodetects the dependencies but doesn't allow them to be
> > explicitly
> > disabled, so just deal with the dependencies.
> 
> db should be taken out from this patch, it's no longer a gplv3
> concern 
> now that we're providing db 5.x only :)

I can leave db out of the patch then. Is db 5.x a long-term solution or
do we have to change to 6.x at some point? Is anyone maintaining db 5
(security fixes especially) anymore?

Ismo

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-08 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-07 13:49 [PATCH v2] python3: make readline, gdbm, and db support conditional Ismo Puustinen
2017-06-07 14:10 ` Burton, Ross
2017-06-08 10:20   ` Puustinen, Ismo
2017-06-09  7:43   ` Puustinen, Ismo
2017-06-08 10:51 ` Alexander Kanavin
2017-06-08 12:35   ` Puustinen, Ismo [this message]
2017-06-08 12:37     ` Alexander Kanavin

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