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Re: c-ctype, inttostr, intprops module license


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: c-ctype, inttostr, intprops module license
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:32:53 -0700
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According to Bruno Haible on 11/16/2006 7:10 AM:
> According to my rule of thumb
>   "if something is usable in libraries, we can put it under LGPL",
>   "if something uses exit, or xmalloc, or error, it is not usable in 
> libraries"
> 
> I would propose:
> 
> - argp: Either decide that argp should be GPL, or rework the 2006-01-21
>   patch to lib/argp-namefrob.h so that it doesn't use dirname any more,

Worse than that, it is using base_name, which was changed in July to
malloc.  argp needs to be changed anyways to avoid a memory leak.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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