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

[Koen Kooi]

Op 30 okt. 2012, om 12:00 heeft "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton at intel.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On 30 October 2012 10:31, Andrei Gherzan <andrei at gherzan.ro> wrote:
>>> 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?
>> 
>> Should it be whitelisted?
> 
> So I did some digging.  The file in git that is explicitly v3 only
> appeared in 3.6, so I considered reverting to 3.5.5 before it
> appeared.  Then I noticed that we're still shipping gnome-common 2.28
> from 2009, which doesn't have any v3 code in (to be honest it barely
> has any license at all, but it's definitely not v3.  I've pinged
> upstream.
> 
> The v3 license in the metadata came from:
> 
> commit 8a2b4e2a5e85f4937e72f03e579b1aaa264074a1
> Author: Zhai Edwin <edwin.zhai at intel.com>
> Date:   Thu Jul 1 15:35:11 2010 +0800
> 
>    gnome-common: Fix the metadata
> 
>    Signed-off-by: Zhai Edwin <edwin.zhai at intel.com>
> 
> diff --git a/meta/packages/gnome/gnome-common_2.20.0.bb
> b/meta/packages/gnome/gnome-common_2.20.0.bb
> index 075ac14..c2eae72 100644
> --- a/meta/packages/gnome/gnome-common_2.20.0.bb
> +++ b/meta/packages/gnome/gnome-common_2.20.0.bb
> @@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
> -LICENSE = "GPL"
> +DESCRIPTION = "Common macros for building GNOME applications"
> +HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnome.org/"
> +BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
> +
> +LICENSE = "GPLv3"
> 
> Looks like a misguided attempt at fixing a warning from not specifying
> what version of GPL was in use.  Traditionally the bulk of GNOME is
> LGPLv2.1
> 
> But following the dependencies, gnomebase adds DEPENDS=gnome-common.
> Shouldn't that be gnome-common-native?  

No, it checks for the files in the target sysroot. I can't say it that's a bug or not, though.

regards,

Koen