Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> writes: > Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> writes: > >> Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> writes: >> >>> I hate to interfere with the merging of working code for non-technical >>> reasons.... >>> >>> This is a plugin interface. As I wrote in reply to v4, I'd like to see >>> a pragmatic argument why abuse of the plugin interface to circumvent the >>> GPL is not practical. This might include "not a stable interface", "you >>> have to link with a truckload of gpl code", "the set of things you can >>> do is deliberately extremely limited". [...] >>> If merging this could be delayed until the licensing ramifications have >>> become a bit more clear, I'd be obliged. >> >> I'd rather not unless we can make an exception for late merging of the >> PR. I've worked quite hard to make sure everything is ready for the 4.2 >> window and I'd rather not miss a whole release cycle on a >> misunderstanding of what these plugins allow. > > I think there are multiple ways to avoid the nuclear outcome. > > Coming to a conclusion before the soft freeze is the nicest one. > > Making an exception for late merging is another one, but Peter may > prefer not to. > > Yet another one is merging the pull request before the soft freeze with > the understanding that it'll be reverted unless we come to a positive > conclusion before say -rc0 (Nov 5). I'm confident we can work it out in > Lyon.
The series has since been merged, so just for the record: we did. The plugin interface looks useful for its stated purposes, yet pretty useless for GPL circumvention. We'll evolve it deliberately to preserve that property. Alex, thank you for your patience.
