Re: licence text as string?

[John Darrington]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:59:09AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
     Hi,
     
     John Darrington wrote:
     > Would it be possible to add a feature to the gpl-[23].0 modules which
     > provides the text of the GPL as a const char * ?
     > 
     > This would be useful for user interfaces which need to display the
     > licence text
     
     Why not reading the file at runtime? It's as simple as this:
     
     Makefile.am:
       pkgdata_DATA = COPYING
     
     *.c:
       license = read_file (PKGDATADIR "/COPYING", &length);
       if (license == NULL)
         license = "GPL";
     


This would be ok if the display system expects the '\n' characters.
But some systems expect a string and perform their own line wrapping.
In this case it would look messy.

J'
     

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