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Re: [Bug-gnulib] Dummy module under LGPL?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] Dummy module under LGPL? |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:30:14 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
> The gnulib-tool support for --lgpl is finished. While testing it, I
> noticed that dummy.c used LGPL version 2. This patch upgrade it to
> LGPL 2.1. At least progreloc.c has the same problem. Using GPL would
> be fine as well.
Let's make it GPL, for consistency with the other modules.
> I think Bruno actually hold the copyright on the one line of real
> code in dummy.c
(Naah, that line in the public domain. I've seen that line for at
least 20 years. Only the comments are copyrightable, really. :-)
But more seriously, we can change it to GPL without any licensing issues,
since one can always convert GPL->LGPL. We can also have gnulib-tool
convert it to LGPL 2.1, for the same reason. We don't need the
author's permission, even assuming
Still more seriously: why is that dummy.c "Copyright (C) 2004 Simon
Josefsson"? It should be copyright by the FSF. There are a few
gnulib modules that are not copyright FSF, but we don't want to add to
the list unless there's a very good reason (and we'll probably need
official FSF approval for each one).