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Re: second call: please nail down the license terms of some more modules


From: Yoann Vandoorselaere
Subject: Re: second call: please nail down the license terms of some more modules
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:34:48 +0200

Le lundi 16 juillet 2007 à 10:14 +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere a écrit :
> Le lundi 16 juillet 2007 à 09:33 +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere a écrit :
> > Le dimanche 15 juillet 2007 à 16:59 +0200, Bruno Haible a écrit :
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > There was no objection when I said that: the majority of gnulib modules 
> > > will
> > > migrate from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+ and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+. So I assume we 
> > > can
> > > go for it in a few days?
> > 
> > For the reasons I mentioned earlier, I think it would be wise waiting
> > before performing the definitive move to GPLv3. 
> > 
> > Even if we provide a list of modules we use doesn't mean that we're not
> > going to need new module tomorrow, or that another library project
> > licensed under GPLv2 will need that module.
> > 
> > 
> > > Before that, please mark the modules that you want to stay at the current
> > > license. We can also revert a license change for a module afterwards, if 
> > > all
> > > contributors agree, but it's easier if it can be done upfront, because 
> > > then
> > > it's legally a no-op.
> > 
> > The modules (and their dependencies) we currently use in Prelude are: 
> > 
> > alloca arpa_inet d-type extensions fnmatch fseeko getline getlogin_r
> > gettext-h inet_ntop localcharset malloc malloca mempcpy mktime
> > netinet_in snprintf socklen ssize_t stdbool stdint stdio strcase strdup
> > string strnlen strpbrk sys_select sys_socket sys_stat sys_time time
> > time_r unistd vasnprintf wchar wctype
> 
> The previous mail was missing module, here is the full list:
> 
> alloca arpa_inet d-type extensions fnmatch fseeko getaddrinfo getline
> getlogin_r getpass gettext-h gettimeofday glob inet_ntop localcharset
> malloc malloca memmem mempcpy memset minmax mktime netinet_in pathmax
> poll regex snprintf socklen ssize_t stdbool stdint stdio strcase
> strcasestr strdup strndup string strnlen strpbrk strptime strsep
> sys_select sys_socket sys_stat sys_time time time_r timegm unistd
> vasnprintf vsnprintf wchar wctype

Here is the patch for the above module,

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