[yocto] Avoiding both GPLv3 and meta-gplv2 ?

[Andre McCurdy]

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 12:07:42 AM NZST Burton, Ross wrote:
>> The make dependencies come from the ptest packages, so if you disable
>> ptest in your DISTRO_FEATURES then those should disappear.
>>
>> Essentially doing a full build without any GPLv3 software *and* not
>> using old releases which are still GPLv2 is tricky.  I can only
>> suggest you don't use the meta-gpl2 layer (as you don't want the
>> recipes to be used) and use bbappends to disable pieces where
>> required.
>
> We probably need some sort of whitepaper on how to do that, it doesn't look
> like our manuals cover it in sufficient detail. Any volunteers ? ;)

Does "Blacklist GPLv3, don't use meta-gplv2, fix any issues you may
run into" need a whitepaper? Or is there more to it than that?