[OE-core] meta-gplv2? [Was Re: parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not GPLv3]

[Khem Raj]

> On Aug 7, 2015, at 5:26 AM, Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On 08/07/2015 12:17 PM, Philip Balister wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Khem. I also do not agree that we lack a self-sustaining
>> community. OpenEmbedded has functioned independently for far longer than
>> the Yocto Project has existed.
> 
> By 'self-sustaining' I mean 'being able to continuously produce quality work'. Looking at layers in meta-openembedded, not all of them are of high quality. Meta-gnome in particular is badly out of date, because no one wants to maintain it properly. If oe-core starts taking a lot more volunteer contributions,

what a bizarre statement. Let me remind you OE is a open source project still and maintained by volunteers.

> and the same thing happens (a volunteer contributes a large set of recipes, then disappears), what is supposed to happen then?

someone else picks it up or it rots and get relegated.

> 
> 
> Alex

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