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Re: build-aux/snippet files
From: |
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos |
Subject: |
Re: build-aux/snippet files |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:46:38 +0100 |
On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 13:51 -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/11/2013 01:34 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> > Hello,
> > It seems that gnulib-tool installs files in build-aux like
> > "snippet/c++defs.h" that are under GPLv3+, even if the --lgpg=2 flag
>
> I assume you mean --lgpl=2
>
> > is specified. If these headers are GPLv3+ shouldn't they be skipped in
> > that case?
>
> No, that sounds like it might be a bug in gnulib-tool for not re-writing
> the header license. Would you like to help investigate? ALL
> gnulib-installed files should have their headers rewritten to match the
> intersection of the module license and the requested license of the
> gnulib-tool invocation; and modules/snippet/c++defs says that it is
> indeed under the LGPLv2+ license.
I'm not sure if that's correct, but here is a patch that solves the
header issue. However at this case the .sh files installed in build-aux
are also LGPL.
regards,
Nikos
patch.txt
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