> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <openembedded- > [email protected]> On Behalf Of Ross Burton > Sent: den 6 juli 2022 18:40 > To: Richard Purdie <[email protected]> > Cc: openembedded-architecture <openembedded- > [email protected]>; nd <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Openembedded-architecture] meta-gplv2 - plan to drop support > in master > > 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. > > Ross
For what it is worth, we stopped using meta-gplv2 earlier this year. What made it possible was that we stopped defining INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE globally, and instead only define it for the image recipes. We also have never allowed bash in our images, which otherwise seems to be a blocker for many wanting to avoid GPL-3.0. In the end, we had to copy two recipes from meta-gplv2 (gnupg and dosfstools) to one of our own layers, but that at least indicates that we are now responsible for maintaining them ourselves. //Peter
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