[OE-core] [RFC] About GPLv2's native recipe

[Eric Bénard]

Hi Robert,

Le Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:12:16 +0800,
Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com> a écrit :
> We have several GPLv2 recipes such as m4-native_1.4.9.bb, while we also
> have GPLv3's m4-native_1.4.17.bb, I think that we can remove
> m4-native_1.4.9.bb if the target m4_1.4.9.bb builds well ?
> 
> I'd like to remove it because we don't build the lower native version by
> default, and we don't know whether it works or when it would fail.
> 
if you want to build a system without GPLv3 ("supported for only
minimal and base images" as stated in the manual) you may need GPLv2
tools :
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#ref-images
INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE = "GPL-3.0 LGPL-3.0 AGPL-3.0"

Best regards,
Eric