[yocto-ab] eglibc - move under yocto?

[Philip Balister]

On 09/26/2011 10:46 PM, Cherry, John wrote:
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>>> Feedback? Comments? Concerns?
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>> Remind me, Mentor bought Codesourcery? I just want to make sure we all
>> know who is who :)
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> Yes, thought that was pretty obvious.  Mentor bought CodeSourcery and CodeSourcery folks have been the primary maintainers of EGLIBC.  However, EGLIBC has always been an open source, community driven project.
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Yes, it is obvious (and a quick Google confirms). However, I wanted to 
make sure I remembered correctly :)

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>> My main concern are the maintainers and the eglibc community, are they
>> OK with this?
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> The EGLIB community is primarily CodeSourcery and the four companies that sponsored the initial project.  Of course there are others as well, and we will need to do some due diligence to make sure this community is OK with the move.   In actuality, members of the community suggested the move!  :)
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Good to hear the eglibc community thought of this!

Philip


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>> Other than that, I think it is a reasonable idea.
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>> Philip
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