-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 16-08-10 16:00, Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:43:10PM +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >>> 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. > > In the case of coreutils, that is 6.0. > GPLv2 is ok here as well. The problem with GPLv3 here is that as soon as > we incorporate some GPLv3 package we need to provide the abilitiy for > customers to rebuild their image (Right to Tinker), which we cannot and > will not do.
And the patent clause isn't fun if your company has tons of IP in that area (like mine). regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFMaWgWMkyGM64RGpERAg6PAJ4+ANeicD6Iwz5VOFF7FXwBNIdtXgCeMZKK Ue6O0IThYTeDJ8RcCKbwIjE= =Rn2H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
