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

[Christopher Larson]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com> wrote:

> 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"
>

GPLv3 native tools will still be used in such a build, as far as I know,
just not the target ones.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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