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

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 15:34 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Is there a problem here though? What impact are you concerned with?

Not much concern from my own POV.

But I thought we have decided to keep GPLv2 versions around. In gcc 4.3.3
even though gcc itself is under GPLv3. the runtime is still under
GPLv2+exceptions
like all prior gcc versions so parts that go on target were still gplv2

For newer versions e.g. 4.5 and 4.6 that we have recipes for the runtime is
licenced under GPLv3+ new GCC Runtime Library Exception as described

But I am fine if thats no more a concern

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
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