[yocto] Avoiding both GPLv3 and meta-gplv2 ?

[Andre McCurdy]

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 11:54:00 AM NZST Andre McCurdy wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Apart from "disable ptest" as Ross pointed out, I would assume that's all
> there is to it - but right now aside from asking here there's really no way
> for someone to know that that's the best available way of handling it, so I
> think it's worth documenting somewhere.

Yes, OK. I hadn't realised ptest is enabled by default in poky (!?!).

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