Re: lgpl compatible files archive?

[Albert Chin]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 08:20:42PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Albert Chin <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I'm in need of this for strtoll() in wget which isn't available on
> > HP-UX. However, wget has the OpenSSL exception to the GPL and I don't
> > want to import strtoll and invalidate the wget license.
> 
> I don't think we should add OpenSSL exceptions to any gnulib code,
> especially not for basic functions like strtoll.  GPL plus the OpenSSL
> exception isn't GPL compatible, IIRC.  Wget has rudimentary support
> for GnuTLS today.

Well, GPL + exception is compatible with LGPL so importing strtoll()
won't incur any problems. I'll let the wget folks know.

Thanks.

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albert chin (address@hidden)