[OE-core] [RFC 0/3] Move Old Recipes to meta-extras

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Mon May 16 19:51:19 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 10:08 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Saul Wold <saul.wold at intel.com> wrote:
> > On 05/15/2011 11:19 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On May 14, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Saul Wold<sgw at linux.intel.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> From: Saul Wold<sgw at linux.intel.com>
> >>>
> >>> This proposes to move the YAFFS2-utils, older clutter-1.4
> >>> and older GCC version (4.3.3 and 3.4.4) as they are unused
> >>> and currently unbuildable.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Are we left with any GPLv2 version of gcc after this ?
> >>
> > Khem,
> >
> > Is not having a GPLv2 version of gcc an issue? For the non-gplv3 version, my
> > understanding is to have an installed user-space for oe-core for a
> > non-development system, therefore gcc is not an issue.
> >
> 
> there are certain parts of gcc which go onto target e.g. libgcc libstdc++

These have specific license exceptions allowing non-gpl code to use them
as system libraries though?

Cheers,

Richard






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