Re: regex-0.12's regex.h seems to have a little bug

[Paul Eggert]

Julien PUYDT <address@hidden> writes:
> Paul Eggert a écrit :
>> Julien PUYDT <address@hidden> writes:
>>>Stepan Kasal a écrit :
>>>>I suggest that you get the files from gnulib CVS on savannah.
>>>Those are GPL and not LGPL ;
>> No, they can be released under either the GPL or the LGPL.
>> If you use gnulib-tool to obtain that source code, it turns the
>> copyright notice into LGPL for you automatically.
> Hmmm... gnulib-tool wants to install it in a project -- which I don't
> want : I just need a posix regex library. Gnulib-tool doesn't seem to
> permit to just get the sources.

I'll CC: this to bug-gnulib to see if the gnulib-tool experts can
help out on here.

> I must admit that I'm no licence guru, and wonder why those files
> aren't just under the LGPL... after all the downgrading from GPL to
> LGPL is even done automatically by a script !

"Historical reasons."  Some projects don't use gnulib-tool even today,
and these older projects typically want GPL.  Coreutils is an example
(and a source of a lot of the gnulib code).  Arguably this should
all be converted to do it the way that you suggest, but that'd take
some work....