Re: no license on some test modules

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bruno Haible on 12/7/2007 4:18 AM:
> 
> A fix could be to make func_import work a bit like func_create_testdir, but
> with a single configure file:
>   - Put the configure tests for 'xalloc' into the normal configure. This is
>     OK since the *.m4 files are all under a permissive license.
>   - Put the source code for 'xalloc' into tests/ instead of lib/. This works
>     without filename clashes since tests source files start with 'test-' by
>     convention.
>   - Emit rules into tests/Makefile.am to create a libtests.a, and link all
>     tests with this library.
> So lib/libgnu.a will be LGPLed, but tests/libtests.a will be GPLed.
> 
> Does that sound right?

That sounds okay to me - by separating the GPL prereqs of the tests into
their own directory and library, the tests can now be GPL without
polluting the LGPL nature of the normal library.

- --
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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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