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

[Robert Yang]

On 01/26/2015 06:39 AM, Christopher Larson wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com
> <mailto:eric at eukrea.com>> wrote:
>
>     Le Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:12:16 +0800,
>     Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com <mailto:liezhi.yang at windriver.com>> a
>     écrit :
>     > We have several GPLv2 recipes such asm4-native_1.4.9.bb <http://m4-native_1.4.9.bb>, while we also
>     > have GPLv3'sm4-native_1.4.17.bb <http://m4-native_1.4.17.bb>, I think that we can remove
>     >m4-native_1.4.9.bb <http://m4-native_1.4.9.bb> if the target m4_1.4.9.bb
>     <http://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.

Yes, you're right.

Thanks for the reply everyone, I will address your concerns, try to
remove some recipes and send patches out.

// Robert


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> Christopher Larson
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> Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics