[OE-core] [poky] [PATCH 0/2] GPLv2 versions of m4 & bison

[Gary Thomas]

On 03/16/2011 03:03 PM, Nitin A Kamble wrote:
> From: Nitin A Kamble<nitin.a.kamble at intel.com>
>
> These commits adds GPLv2 versions of m4&  bison recipes.
>
> Pull URL: git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib.git
>    Branch: nitin/misc
>    Browse: http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=nitin/misc
>
> Thanks,
>      Nitin A Kamble<nitin.a.kamble at intel.com>
> ---
>
>
> Nitin A Kamble (2):
>    bison: bring back GPLv2 version 2.3 of bison recipe
>    m4: bring back GPLv2 version 1.4.9 of m4 recipe
>
>   .../bison/bison/bison-2.3_m4.patch                 |  590 ++++++++++++++++++++
>   meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison_2.3.bb           |   35 ++
>   meta/recipes-devtools/m4/m4-native_1.4.9.bb        |   12 +
>   .../m4/m4/fix_for_circular_dependency.patch        |   75 +++
>   meta/recipes-devtools/m4/m4_1.4.9.bb               |   18 +
>   5 files changed, 730 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison/bison-2.3_m4.patch
>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison_2.3.bb
>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/m4/m4-native_1.4.9.bb
>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/m4/m4/fix_for_circular_dependency.patch
>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/m4/m4_1.4.9.bb
>

Was this purely for licensing reasons?  (just asking since there was no discussion on this list)

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