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gawk: disable persistent memory by default due to licensing

Message ID 20250912200740.2873851-1-Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com
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Series gawk: disable persistent memory by default due to licensing | expand

Commit Message

Randy MacLeod Sept. 12, 2025, 8:07 p.m. UTC 
From: Randy MacLeod <Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com>

In gawk-5.2, a feature that allows gawk to preserve memory between runs:
   https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Persistent-Memory.html
was added. The files that implement this, support/pma.[ch], are licensed
under the AGPL which some entities perfer to avoid. Force people to knowingly
opt into using this feature and license.

Also add AGPL to the license to the summary.

Signed-off-by: Randy MacLeod <Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com>
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 meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.2.bb | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Ross Burton Sept. 14, 2025, 1:39 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 12 Sep 2025, at 21:07, Randy MacLeod via lists.openembedded.org <randy.macleod=windriver.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> 
> From: Randy MacLeod <Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com>
> 
> In gawk-5.2, a feature that allows gawk to preserve memory between runs:
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Persistent-Memory.html
> was added. The files that implement this, support/pma.[ch], are licensed
> under the AGPL which some entities perfer to avoid. Force people to knowingly
> opt into using this feature and license.
> 
> Also add AGPL to the license to the summary.

If disabling that option means there’s no AGPL code in binary, then LICENSE:${PN} could be constructed based on the value of PACKAGECONFIG.

Ross
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diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.2.bb
index 833fe78bf9..7678dc9401 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.2.bb
@@ -8,12 +8,14 @@  SECTION = "console/utils"
 
 # gawk <= 3.1.5: GPL-2.0-only
 # gawk >= 3.1.6: GPL-3.0-only
-LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only & AGPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "readline mpfr"
 PACKAGECONFIG[readline] = "--with-readline,--without-readline,readline"
 PACKAGECONFIG[mpfr] = "--with-mpfr,--without-mpfr, mpfr"
+# Check support/pwa.c license
+PACKAGECONFIG[pma] = "--enable-pma,--disable-pma, "
 
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gawk/gawk-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://run-ptest \