Bug 873

Summary: non-GPLv3 should be documented better
Product: [Documentation] Reference Reporter: Dave Stewart <david.c.stewart>
Component: handbookAssignee: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: High CC: jiajun.xu, poky.doc.watcher, poky.watcher, richard.purdie, sgw
Version: 1.0   
Target Milestone: 1.0 M4   
Hardware: All   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: 22 July 2011 - Verified
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: ---

Description Dave Stewart 2011-03-15 09:09:32 UTC 
We have a bug (#714) that was opened because someone tried to do a non-GPLv3 build of Sato. But Sato builds are apparently not designed to be run without GPLv3 components.  Only minimal and basic are supposed to work.

Then I did a search of the Poky handbook and I didn't see non-GPLv3 documented anyplace. So we need a couple of things here, needed for 1.0:

1. Need to clearly document in the handbook how to do a build without GPLv3 components. Probably only a paragraph or so with a snippet from a config file.

2. Need to document either in the handbook or in release notes that non-GPLv3 builds are only supported with minimal and basic (which is what I think I heard).
Comment 1 Scott Rifenbark 2011-03-16 21:55:13 UTC 
Change is made in the Poky Reference manual.  I have added some notes.  One is in the Image appendix and one is in the chapter where it talks about building an image.  These will be pushed and pull request generated tomorrow.
Comment 3 Jiajun Xu 2011-03-22 23:52:48 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Fixed in
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=62432306752c9863780a7addf60b06f8035eddd4

I met a libuser do_compile error, which blocks poky-image-basic testing with non-GPLv3, bug 926.
Comment 4 Scott Rifenbark 2011-07-22 07:25:48 UTC 
Fix is in the manual.