[OE-core] [PATCH] Revert "musl: Add TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY from glibc"

Adrian Bunk bunk at stusta.de
Thu May 23 16:06:54 UTC 2019


On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 07:58:19AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>...
> Secondly, musl and glibc are under different licenses and importing
> code from one to other could taint it.
>...

How many LOC are considered the legal limit in OE for that?

Many of the musl support patches (e.g. [1]) contain more LOC from glibc 
headers,[2] so if these are considered a problem there might be more
legal review ahead.

cu
Adrian

[1] meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam/0001-Add-support-for-defining-missing-funcitonality.patch
[2] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blame;f=string/string.h;hb=0a54e4010fe0085cd36deaff9442a7e88de3270d#l131

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