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

[Saul Wold]

On 05/16/2011 12:51 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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?
>
Richard is correct, there are exception for the runtime parts of GCC.
Sorry Khem, I was not catching to original gist of the question.

Sau!

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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