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Re: Licensing of dummy.c
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Bruno Haible |
Subject: |
Re: Licensing of dummy.c |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:40:14 +0200 |
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Hi Jim, Reuben,
> > Since this file is trivial, would it be possible to give it an
> > all-permissive license? Someone has just (helpfully!) pointed out that
> > it shouldn't be in a BSD-licensed project I maintain, where it gets
> > pulled in by bootstrap.
>
> If dummy's license is causing trouble, how can you use any
> nontrivial part of gnulib?
gnulib-tool is also meant to combine source code when all your modules
come from your own package (option --local-dir) and you use no modules
from gnulib.
The 'dummy' module is hardwired into gnulib-tool, therefore its license
needs to be permissive, like Reuben says. As the only non-trivial contributor
to lib/dummy.c, I am changing its license:
2012-06-17 Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
dummy: Relicense into the public domain.
* modules/dummy (License): Set to "public domain".
Suggested by Reuben Thomas.
--- modules/dummy.orig Sun Jun 17 17:33:39 2012
+++ modules/dummy Sun Jun 17 17:33:19 2012
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
Include:
License:
-LGPLv2+
+public domain
Maintainer:
all