> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Richard Purdie > Sent: den 7 mars 2017 19:23 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OE-core] [PATCH] recipes: Move out stale GPLv2 versions to a > seperate layer > > These are recipes where the upstream has moved to GPLv3 and these old > versions are the last ones under the GPLv2 license. > > There are several reasons for making this move. There is a different > quality of service with these recipes in that they don't get security > fixes and upstream no longer care about them, in fact they're actively > hostile against people using old versions. The recipes tend to need a > different kind of maintenance to work with changes in the wider ecosystem > and there needs to be isolation between changes made in the v3 versions > and those in the v2 versions. > > There are probably better ways to handle a "non-GPLv3" system but right > now having these in OE-Core makes them look like a first class citizen > when I believe they have potential for a variety of undesireable > issues. > > Moving them into a separate layer makes their different needs clearer, it > also makes it clear how many of these there are. Some are probably not > needed (e.g. mc), I also wonder whether some are useful (e.g. gmp) > since most things that use them are GPLv3 only already. Someone could > now more clearly see how to streamline the list of recipes here. > > I'm proposing we mmove to this separate layer for 2.3 with its future > maintinership and testing to be determined in 2.4 and beyond. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
Since this has now been integrated, announcing where to find the new layer might have been a good idea, as it is no longer part of Poky. For the record, the new layer can be found here: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-gplv2/ You probably also want to update the information about the layer so that it appears correctly on http://git.yoctoproject.org/ And the layer should be added to the layer index... //Peter -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
