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Re: licence text as string?


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: licence text as string?
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:59:09 +0200
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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";

read_file() is a function provided by gnulib, module 'read-file'.

Bruno







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