Re: relocatable given GPL boilerplate despite asking for relocatable-lib

From:

Reuben Thomas

Subject:

Re: relocatable given GPL boilerplate despite asking for relocatable-lib-lgpl

Date:

Mon, 20 Mar 2017 22:26:01 +0000

On 20 March 2017 at 22:06, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

[adding Gary in cc]

Interesting - that file is not part of gnulib proper at the moment, but
Gary's bootstrap project aims to be something that plays nicely with
gnulib, and has the same directory layouts. In fact, the funclib.sh
module in that repository has this license:

License:
Dual MIT/GPLv2+

which doesn't seem to be something that gnulib-tool recognizes. Compare
that to the license of other build-time-only modules, like
maintainer-makefile:

License:
GPLed build tool

which has a specific license text that gnulib-tool then allows in
combination with --lgpl.

Thanks, that indeed sounds like the right solution (also it gives me a heads up that I'm out of date, as the copy I have says only "GPLv2+").

That just leaves the discrepancy I noticed where relocatable.[ch] specifically mention the LGPL in the versions in gnulib git, whereas the manual says that all the git sources should mention the GPL.

GPL modules that are only used at build time are supposed to be
compatible with --lgpl.

Thanks for confirming that.

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