On 02/11/15 11:01, Kathy Giori wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Alexey Brodkin > <alexey.brod...@synopsys.com> wrote: >> Hi Felix, >> >> On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 11:43 +0300, Alexey Brodkin wrote: >>> These are from today's master branch of: >>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=tree >>> >>> In particular it adds support for ARC architecture plus some more >>> improvements and fixes. >>> >>> This patch is built-tested against NetGear WNDR3800. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrod...@synopsys.com> >>> Cc: Florian Fainelli <flor...@openwrt.org> >>> Cc: Imre Kaloz <ka...@openwrt.org> >>> --- >>> scripts/config.guess | 378 >>> +++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------- >>> scripts/config.sub | 150 ++++++++++++-------- >>> 2 files changed, 238 insertions(+), 290 deletions(-) >> >> I'm wondering if there're any comments on this one. >> Otherwise please consider applying. >> >> This patch is a prerequisite for ARC port submission I'm going to send out >> shortly. > > Alexey, > > Is there a particular reason that this architecture must be submitted > to OpenWrt under the terms GPL v3+? I would prefer that OpenWrt stick > to GPL v2 in order to maintain better compatibility with the Linux > kernel (kernel.org). The kernel is primarily GPL v2 licensed (or > something FreeBSD-like which is more, not less, permissive). The > OpenWrt distro has only a few GPL v3 package exceptions, such as > samba.
This is a quick jump to invalid conclusions, the changes that Alexey is submitting are to files under scripts/* which are only used during the build process in this case, and there are no GPLv3 components being included in the firmware image per-se. These specific files are used by autotools and friends to detect the architecture/machine we cross-compile for, and as such as a prerequisite for supporting an ARC toolchain. As such, the changes are completely fine, and have no bearing to the resulting firmware image. > > The OpenWrt core team are doing a good job building a better > industry-community relationship for OpenWrt, which I think can be a > win-win for overall project improvement (brings in more developer > resources, much like kernel development depends on industry > developers). Introducing more GPL v3 packages makes it problematic for > certain industry partners to be able to fully collaborate. Although I do share the same feeling, I think the justification is way off, GPLv3 does not prevent anybody from contributing, it may just hurt your distribution model, which is something entirely different. -- Florian _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel