From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A13E9781FA for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2017 12:37:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from orsmga004.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.38]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 08 Jun 2017 05:37:02 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.39,314,1493708400"; d="scan'208";a="95929953" Received: from kanavin-desktop.fi.intel.com (HELO [10.237.68.161]) ([10.237.68.161]) by orsmga004.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 08 Jun 2017 05:37:01 -0700 To: "Puustinen, Ismo" , "openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org" References: <20170607134942.13281-1-ismo.puustinen@intel.com> <75435a83-d29b-4b68-3e27-90746b31c970@linux.intel.com> <1496925313.23488.6.camel@intel.com> From: Alexander Kanavin Message-ID: <6a293ae0-944e-ccf3-91a4-56593c158505@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 15:37:01 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1496925313.23488.6.camel@intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] python3: make readline, gdbm, and db support conditional. X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:37:05 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/08/2017 03:35 PM, Puustinen, Ismo wrote: >> 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? We have no plans to change to 6.x. 5.x is what all major Linux distros are using, so we can take security fixes from them as needed. 6.x has been more or less rejected by open source community. Alex