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

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Saul Wold <saul.wold at intel.com> wrote:
> 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.

exceptions yes but they are not same exceptions between GPLv2 and GPLv3 gcc.

>
> Sau!
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
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