[yocto-autobuilder-helper,2/2] config.json: remove non-gpl3 job

meta-gplv2 is deprecated, so remove it from the autobuilder in master.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
---
 config.json | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

Where and how the decision was made?

Alex

On Wed, 6 Jul 2022 at 16:04, Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com> wrote:
>
> meta-gplv2 is deprecated, so remove it from the autobuilder in master.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
> ---
>  config.json | 11 -----------
>  1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/config.json b/config.json
> index 7f7c2ad..c16812b 100644
> --- a/config.json
> +++ b/config.json
> @@ -753,17 +753,6 @@
>                  "BBTARGETS" : "build-appliance-image"
>              }
>          },
> -        "non-gpl3" : {
> -            "NEEDREPOS" : ["poky", "meta-gplv2"],
> -            "MACHINE" : "qemux86",
> -            "BBTARGETS" : "core-image-minimal core-image-full-cmdline",
> -            "extravars" : [
> -                "require conf/distro/include/disable-gplv3.inc"
> -            ],
> -            "EXTRACMDS" : [
> -                "../../yocto-autobuilder-helper/scripts/check-gplv3"
> -            ]
> -        },
>          "no-x11" : {
>              "MACHINE" : "qemux86-64",
>              "BBTARGETS" : "core-image-full-cmdline core-image-weston world",
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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On 6 Jul 2022, at 15:13, Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Where and how the decision was made?

Maybe ‘deprecated’ isn’t quite the right word to use here.

However, meta-gpl2 is unmaintained.  It has no active maintainers, and is worked on only when absolutely needed: in the last year there’s been one actual bug fix, the rest of the commits were related to metadata changes to core (license, override syntax, etc).

By definition all of the software in meta-gplv2 is obsolete and almost certainly has security issues, but nobody is maintaining it.

This has been bought up both here repeatedly, and in the Members calls.  Nobody has shown willing to adopt the layer, fix any outstanding security issues, and maintain it.

We likely need to discuss this again before formally deprecating it, but this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. Is there anyone who actually cares enough about meta-gplv2 to maintain it?  This should be taken to oe-arch.

Ross