[poky] [PATCH 0/3] util-linux: split out libuuid and libblkid

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 14:03 -0600, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 1/19/11 1:51 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > Tangent: have you considered switching to util-linux-ng?
> > 
> > Op 19 jan 2011, om 17:55 heeft Paul Eggleton het volgende geschreven:
> > 
> >> Split libuuid and libblkid from util-linux into separate runtime packages.
> >> Slightly reduces the overall footprint of other packages that depend on these 
> >> libraries.
> 
> The util-linux-ng components are licensed GPLv3, so they could be alternatives,
> but we need a GPLv2 version of the components for some systems.

According to the license headers, only lscpu is GPLv3 and since we
package that separately from everything else and clearly identify its
license, we are currently using util-linux-ng for this purpose as things
stand.

Cheers,

Richard