[OE-core] FW: [oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not GPLv3

[Lei, Maohui]

Hi Otavio


> > Who's going to provide ongoing maintenance for all that? I would like
> > Lei to establish himself as the maintainer (through the maintainers.inc file).
> 
> Agreed; 2007 I was still one of developers of it IIRC and since then, Jim has improved it
> quite a lot.

Thank you.

> 
> To be honest, parted at that time has several issues with bigger disk sectors and other
> stuff.  I wouldn't like to see projects relying on such old and buggy version.
>

Old version does have some issues. But I think it is better to provide a non-v3 version to user who does not mind of these issues.

Cheers 
Lei

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
> [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Otavio
> Salvador
> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 10:00 PM
> To: Alexander Kanavin
> Cc: OE-core
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] FW: [oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not
> GPLv3
> 
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com>
> wrote:
> > On 07/07/2015 04:38 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> >
> >>     How about renaming the recipe, so that it doesn't clash with the
> >>     GPLv3 version? For example, parted1_1.8.6.bb
> >>     <http://parted1_1.8.6.bb>. Then it can be kept outside of oe-core.
> >>
> >>
> >> As they're just version variations that would be overly complex.
> >> Dropping it in oe-core as it's a non-v3 alternative doesn't seem to
> >> be a problem to me (as there's plenty of precedent for that already).
> >
> >
> > My problem is that parted 1.8.6 was released in 2007, and the recipe
> > already carries eight patches with it (and none of them has any
> > information about their origin).
> >
> > Who's going to provide ongoing maintenance for all that? I would like
> > Lei to establish himself as the maintainer (through the maintainers.inc file).
> 
> Agreed; 2007 I was still one of developers of it IIRC and since then, Jim has improved it
> quite a lot.
> 
> To be honest, parted at that time has several issues with bigger disk sectors and other
> stuff.  I wouldn't like to see projects relying on such old and buggy version.
> 
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