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Re: cloexec license


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: cloexec license
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:35:28 +0100

Eric Blake wrote:
> Jim, Bruno,
> Any objections to relicensing cloexec as LGPL?  set_cloexec_flag is only a 
> thin
> wrapper around fcntl, which currently isn't adding much content beyond a low
> level function that is present everywhere except mingw.  dup_cloexec is a bit
> more complicated, and was borrowed from the GPL module pipe, but again, it is
> merely exposing features of the system in a convenient API rather than
> inventing new features.  If we don't relicense, then rpl_fcntl and O_CLOEXEC
> support will have to be GPL, which seems weird, since open is currently LGPL.

Seems sensible.  Fine by me.




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