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

[Burton, Ross]

On 11 August 2015 at 16:46, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

> can we freeze this thread please.
>

Or more usefully, reboot it.  Philip, you're turning into Koen!  Alex, if
someone on this list asks what Poky is, 99% of the time they're trolling.
 :)

The original and unanswered question was "should oe-core continue to
maintain GPLv2 recipes where upstream has moved to GPLv3 or should those
recipes move to a standalone layer" with various implied questions:

- If the v2 recipes move to a separate layer, who own/maintains/tests it?
- Should there be v2 recipes for every recipe that has moved to v3, or only
(as is now) the "more-core" recipes (currently YP tests that
core-image-base builds without GPLv3, nothing else more complicated)
- Should meta-gplv2 only contain recipes from oe-core, or all layers?  If
other layers decide to hold both v3 and v2 recipes (not that I'm aware any
have), what makes oe-core special?

I'm torn, Richard is torn.  Neither of those are useful to forming a
decision.  Does anyone else have any *useful* feedback?

Ross
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