> -----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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