Re: Licensing of dummy.c

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Jim, Reuben,

> > Since this file is trivial, would it be possible to give it an
> > all-permissive license? Someone has just (helpfully!) pointed out that
> > it shouldn't be in a BSD-licensed project I maintain, where it gets
> > pulled in by bootstrap.
> 
> If dummy's license is causing trouble, how can you use any
> nontrivial part of gnulib?

gnulib-tool is also meant to combine source code when all your modules
come from your own package (option --local-dir) and you use no modules
from gnulib.

The 'dummy' module is hardwired into gnulib-tool, therefore its license
needs to be permissive, like Reuben says. As the only non-trivial contributor
to lib/dummy.c, I am changing its license:


2012-06-17  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        dummy: Relicense into the public domain.
        * modules/dummy (License): Set to "public domain".
        Suggested by Reuben Thomas.

--- modules/dummy.orig  Sun Jun 17 17:33:39 2012
+++ modules/dummy       Sun Jun 17 17:33:19 2012
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 Include:
 
 License:
-LGPLv2+
+public domain
 
 Maintainer:
 all