<div dir="ltr"><div>For what it's worth, we (a major car manufacturer :) do use meta-gpl2 here, but it was always intended as a temporary solution, and once we have master branch builds up and running (currently everything is based on thud), work will get underway to take per-image license restriction into use, drop meta-gpl2 and then identify and eliminate any remaining gpl3 dependencies - for the product image only. Images for developers will get a free pass to install anything developers want.</div><div><br></div><div>Alex<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 13:02, Ross Burton <<a href="mailto:ross.burton@intel.com">ross.burton@intel.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 18/01/2020 11:19, Richard Purdie wrote:<br>
> I believe the concept of meta-gplv2 is broken. We don't want to<br>
> maintain old versions of the software in a clean room style environment<br>
> as the upstreams all move forward with new development, features and<br>
> incompatibilities. It was created as a bandaid, its probably time to<br>
> move on?<br>
> <br>
> We'd be better off looking at replacing these components with others<br>
> with acceptable licensing, as Alex recently demonstrated in OE-Core.<br>
<br>
I agree. The bulk of the software in there is *old*. I hope that the <br>
intesection of "I'm releasing a commercial product, GPLv3 is forbidden" <br>
and "I'm releasing a commercial product but don't care the software I'm <br>
shipping is a decade old" is pretty small.<br>
<br>
How much actually breaks without meta-gpl2 now?<br>
<br>
Ross<br>
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