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[Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again
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Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
[Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Sep 2004 17:47:32 +0200 |
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address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:
> I have created a project "Lesser GNULib" that will hold LGPL
> rewrites
>
> Something seems fundamentally wrong here. A primary purpose of GNU in
> general, not to mention Gnulib in particular, is to avoid having to
> rewrite code. Yet here you are, being forced to do exactly that --
> rewrite code that is already freely available, in order to use it in a
> GNU project. What a shame.
>
> There must be a better solution.
>
> Ok, so if rms doesn't want to just blanket say that everything in gnulib
> is available under lgpl, how about asking him about lgpl-ing the
> specific files that you need, pointing out that otherwise you need to
> rewrite them for your LGPL project, and isn't this rather a waste of
> always-scarce development time?
Yes, I explained this in my e-mail. OTOH, rewriting all of the
modules I have needed so far took less time than discussing it...
> Although it does nothing about the underlying problem, administratively
> we could at least have the lgpl'd files in gnulib, if you like. Some
> variation of srclist-update could keep the lgpl and gpl copies in sync.
I'll forward all modules I think would be useful in gnulib, of course.
I'm not sure how to handle some rewrites, like getline/getdelim, which
is also thread safe. I wonder if the gpl/lgpl separation mentioned in
gnulib/README isn't a good idea after all, then you can use the same
file name twice.
Thanks,
Simon
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, (continued)
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Bruno Haible, 2004/09/22
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Simon Josefsson, 2004/09/22
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Karl Berry, 2004/09/22
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Simon Josefsson, 2004/09/23
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Bruno Haible, 2004/09/23
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Simon Josefsson, 2004/09/24
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Paul Eggert, 2004/09/24
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Simon Josefsson, 2004/09/26
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Karl Berry, 2004/09/26
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Karl Berry, 2004/09/26
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again,
Simon Josefsson <=
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Bruno Haible, 2004/09/28
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Simon Josefsson, 2004/09/28
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Bruno Haible, 2004/09/28
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Simon Josefsson, 2004/09/28
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Simon Josefsson, 2004/09/28
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] licenses again, Bruno Haible, 2004/09/28
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] licenses again, Paul Eggert, 2004/09/28
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] licenses again, Bruno Haible, 2004/09/28
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Simon Josefsson, 2004/09/28
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again, Bruno Haible, 2004/09/29