Re: ssize_t

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> GnuTLS need ssize_t, but there is no module for it right now.  How
> about the patch below?

Looks OK to me.

> I'm not sure what the License field for ssize_t.m4 should be.  The M4
> file says:
>
> dnl Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
> dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
> dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
>
> What do we call this?  I wrote "public domain", but that seem
> incorrect.

I would write "LGPL", since it's usable in libraries. (The "License"
statement effectively does not apply to the *.m4 files, therefore here
we're talking about the license of an empty set of *.[hc] files.)

Bruno