On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 9:39 AM Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6 Jul 2022, at 16:34, Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > meta-gplv2 makes the TSCs very nervous (certainly YP and I believe OE > > TSC people too although it hasn't had an official discussion there). It > > has a load of old "pre GPLv3 license" versions of software that haven't > > seen security fixes for years. We've limped it along to our last LTS. > > It has no active maintainer. > > I for one agree with this proposal. For several years we’ve said that > this layer is basically on life support, someone who uses it should step up > and maintain it, and yet at no point does this happen. It’s actively > accumulating security fixes so can’t seriously be used in any real > deployments as-is, so it must be redundant. There’s no point in redundant > code taking up the not-maintainers time, so we can remove it. > I agree also, there are better alternative approaches now. -- Christopher Larson [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Principal Software Engineer, Embedded Linux Solutions, Siemens Digital Industries Software
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