[oe] cleaning recipes

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/8/16 Marc Olzheim <zlo at zlo.nu>:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 04:59:17PM +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>> As some of you might have noticed I've been cleaning up our
>> recipes.during the last week or so.
>> As I had some time at hand this weekend, lots of cleaning has been done.
>> I did my very best to stay within the guidelines of the TSC (as
>> described in http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2010-May/020047.html),
>> but it is quite possible that at some point I made a mistake or so.
>> If so, let me know and I'll repair things and/or revert the commit. (I
>> feel if you make a mess you should also clean it yourself).
>
> Hmm, the "guidelines" do not mention anything about licenses. Thus the
> only version you left of coreutils after
> 82dcd385984ba059b346a0e37fd3e14d536074ad is infected with GPLv3, while
> the older (6.0) GPLv2 version works fine for us.  I do not know
> whether other people mind about licenses, but we cannot use any GPLv3
> software in our image, because of its viral nature.
>
> Marc

Valid point.
I did not consider licenses. Although the company I work for has no
problems with GPLv2, I understand your concern
What would be the most recent version of coreutils that is still using v2?
We can reinstate that one.

Thanks alot for your feedback.
Frans