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

[Mark Hatle]

On 1/19/11 3:24 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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.

Ok good then, for some reason I thought various utilities have been moved to
GPLv3 (other then lscpu).. I must have been mistaken.

(and yes I agree changing the name would be a good idea, matching upstream
naming makes it much less confusing.)

--Mark

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
>