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Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft |
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Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:17:21 -0700 |
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Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> aren’t all modules going to be LGPLv2+ as time tends to +∞?
No, some Gnulib modules are intended for use only in standalone applications,
and their licenses are therefore intended to be GPL rather than LGPL.
For example the xalloc module calls 'exit' on failure, an action that would be
inappropriate for a library.
- Re: Request to relicense hash gnulib module to LGPLv2+, Richard W.M. Jones, 2013/09/09
- Re: Request to relicense hash gnulib module to LGPLv2+, Eric Blake, 2013/09/12
- Re: Request to relicense hash gnulib module to LGPLv2+, Simon Josefsson, 2013/09/12
- Re: Request to relicense hash gnulib module to LGPLv2+, Paul Eggert, 2013/09/12
- Relicensing policy & weak copyleft, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/09/19
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- Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft, Karl Berry, 2013/09/19
- Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft, Paul Eggert, 2013/09/19
- Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft, Karl Berry, 2013/09/19
- Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft, Paul Eggert, 2013/09/19
- Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft, Richard W.M. Jones, 2013/09/23
- Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/09/23