Re: update regex dependencies

[David Lutterkort]

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 10:59 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> I'm committing this:
> 
> 2008-12-22  Paolo Bonzini  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * modules/regex: Request emulations for the mb*/wc* functions we
>       need.
>       * m4/regex.m4: Don't look for those functions here.
> diff --git a/modules/regex b/modules/regex
> index 1659e18..c6a1235 100644
> --- a/modules/regex
> +++ b/modules/regex
> @@ -13,16 +13,20 @@ m4/mbstate_t.m4
> 
>  Depends-on:
>  alloca
> +btowc
>  extensions
>  gettext-h
>  localcharset
>  malloc
>  memcmp
>  memmove
> +mbrtowc
> +mbsinit
>  stdbool
>  stdint
>  ssize_t
>  wchar
> +wcrtomb
>  wctype

This breaks the LGPLv2+ license on regex, since btowc, mbrtowc, mbsinit,
and wcrtomb are licensed LGPL; also streq (licensed LGPL) is used by
mbrtowc.

Can these modules be relicensed as LGPLv2+ ? Otherwise, regex is now
effectively LGPL.

David