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

[Andre McCurdy]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 1:14 PM Alexander Kanavin
<alex.kanavin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 22:08, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Another tricky point is libraries such as gmp and nettle, which are
>> now either LGPLv3 (and so problematic for signed firmware images, etc)
>> or GPLv2 (and so problematic if somehow linked with proprietary code)
>>
>> meta-gplv2 solves that problem too by providing the last versions of
>> gmp and nettle which could be distributed under LGPv2 (and the last
>> version of gnutls which supports those older version of gmp and
>> nettle).
>
> 'Solves that problem' is perhaps an unfortunate word choice; I wouldn't want to revert to outdated versions of anything, but *especially* cryptographic libraries and toolkits.

Right, we can all agree that meta-gplv2 is not ideal. I'm just trying
to highlight the point that simply avoiding (L)GPLv3 isn't enough as
it can force packages to use licenses which are problematic for other
reasons.