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

[Kamble, Nitin A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 6:02 PM
> To: Kamble, Nitin A
> Cc: poky at yoctoproject.org; openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [poky] [PATCH 0/2] GPLv2 versions of m4 & bison
> 
> 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)

Yes, it was for licensing reasons.
Thanks,
Nitin

> 
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