[OE-core] [PATCH 1/4] pulseaudio: add GConf dependency

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Tue Oct 30 10:19:35 UTC 2012


On 30 October 2012 10:10, Andrei Gherzan <andrei at gherzan.ro> wrote:
>> What causes gconf to not build without GPLv3?
>
> pulseaudio depends on gconf (because of that racing issues). Now, gconf
> inherits gnomebase which adds to gconf's DEPENDS gnome-common package which
> is GPLv3. So this is the chain.

Oh joy, one of those instances where GPLv3 isn't actually a problem.

gnome-common is some scripts and tools used at configure time, so
there isn't any linkage, so there isn't any GPLv3 in the images, so
there isn't a problem.

The question is how do we express this?

Ross




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