Re: perror: fix license problems

[Simon Josefsson]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Any objection to this?

The patch is not needed now that intprops is now LGPLv2+.  The comment
would need to be adjusted, though, if you still want to push the patch.

/Simon

> From 2fea9d6efde41eea3af51b45d27b31ed9f376b52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:02:13 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] strerror: don't depend on GPL'd intprops
>
> * modules/strerror (Depends-on): Remove intprops.
> * lib/strerror.c: Don't include "intprops.h".
> Instead, define INT_STRLEN_BOUND to 20.
> ---
>  lib/strerror.c   |    3 +++
>  modules/strerror |    1 -
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/strerror.c b/lib/strerror.c
> index 787575f..1f5e691 100644
> --- a/lib/strerror.c
> +++ b/lib/strerror.c
> @@ -30,7 +30,10 @@
>  #  endif
>  # endif
>
> +/* commented out due to LGPLv2+ vs. GPL copyright incompatibility
>  # include "intprops.h"
> + */
> +# define INT_STRLEN_BOUND(x) 20
>
>  # undef strerror
>  # if ! HAVE_DECL_STRERROR
> diff --git a/modules/strerror b/modules/strerror
> index b662401..2fa5d88 100644
> --- a/modules/strerror
> +++ b/modules/strerror
> @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ m4/strerror.m4
>
>  Depends-on:
>  errno
> -intprops
>  string
>
>  configure.ac:
> --
> 1.6.0.3.517.g759a