[OE-core] [PATCH] util-linux: upgrade 2.34 -> 2.35

Randy MacLeod randy.macleod at windriver.com
Wed Feb 26 14:10:26 UTC 2020


On 1/22/20 1:06 PM, Pierre-Jean Texier via Openembedded-core wrote:
> Hi Mikko,
> 
> Le 22/01/2020 à 10:28, Mikko.Rapeli at bmw.de a écrit :
>> Which parts of util-linux are now licensed with GPLv3?
> 
> As said by Peter previously, it's only for hwclock. In fact
> since commit 7a3000f7ba548cf7d74ac77cc63fe8de228a669e ("hwclock: use 
> parse_date function ") so the version 2.30,
> hwclock is linked with parse_date.y from gnullib.
> And gnulib code is distributed with GPLv3
> 
> Regards

It would be nice to get util-linux updated for 3.1.

Pierre-Jean do you have time to address the GPLv3/hwclock licensing
and re-submit (2.35.1?) this week?

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