Re: [iot-pmc] Bulk discussion/voting for Paho CQs

[Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> glibc:   https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10656
...

> From the "Guidelines for the Review of Third Party Dependencies" 'A
> prerequisite may be classified as "exempt" by the EMO if the software is
> pervasive in nature, expected to be already on the user's machine, and/or an
> IP review would be either impossible, impractical or inadvisable' I imagine
> …
>
> I think that glibc could be an exempt prerequisite on the basis of its
> pervasive nature.

It does feel as though this is a case that the guidelines don't quite
cover. glibc isn't the prerequisite, an implementation of the C
library is.

An exempt prerequisite does seem to be the most appropriate choice here though.

Cheers,

Roger