Re: gnulib/poll.c license

[Thomas Martitz]

Am 25.10.2012 00:05, schrieb Eric Blake:
> On 10/24/2012 04:00 PM, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Thomas Martitz <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Dear folks,
> > >
> > > I am on a mission to port Pulseaudio (PA) to Windows. PA relies heavily
> > > on poll() and this is not properly implemented for Windows. I found your
> > > poll() implementation and it works well (with some changes, which I
> > > will happily share with you). However there is a license issue. PA is
> > > licensed under LGPL (2.1) which is incompatible with GPL (2 or later).
> > >
> > > Thus, I would like to as you kindly if you could grant us a copy of
> > > poll.c under a compatible license. This would help us immensely. Would
> > > you please consider this?
> > I see no problem with this. You have my blessing.
> gnulib's poll module is already LGPLv2+.  There's nothing to relicense.
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/modules/poll#n34
>
> Are you using 'gnulib-tool --lgpl=2 --import poll' to get at the module?

Hello,

I didn't use that tool. Following my intuition I just browsed the source 
code as normal, which gave me poll.c under GPLv2+[1].
If I understand this correctly gnulib-tool replaces the license header 
to reflect the real license. Perhaps the header of the unprocessed 
source should be updated.

Anyway, nice to hear that the license is already LGPLv2+, that suits us 
very well. Thank you!

Best regards.

[1]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/lib/poll.c