[Openembedded-architecture] meta-gplv2 support from YP testing in master

Ross Burton ross.burton at intel.com
Wed Jan 22 12:02:22 UTC 2020


On 18/01/2020 11:19, Richard Purdie wrote:
> I believe the concept of meta-gplv2 is broken. We don't want to
> maintain old versions of the software in a clean room style environment
> as the upstreams all move forward with new development, features and
> incompatibilities. It was created as a bandaid, its probably time to
> move on?
> 
> We'd be better off looking at replacing these components with others
> with acceptable licensing, as Alex recently demonstrated in OE-Core.

I agree.  The bulk of the software in there is *old*.  I hope that the 
intesection of "I'm releasing a commercial product, GPLv3 is forbidden" 
and "I'm releasing a commercial product but don't care the software I'm 
shipping is a decade old" is pretty small.

How much actually breaks without meta-gpl2 now?

Ross


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