Re: relocatable given GPL boilerplate despite asking for relocatable-lib-lgpl

[Reuben Thomas]

On 20 March 2017 at 21:31, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Reuben,

> Although gnulib/lib/relocatable.[ch] are LGPL-licensed in their original
> forms in the gnulib source tree, they are rewritten to be under GPL, even
> though I ask for relocatable-lib-lgpl. Is this a bug?

You mean, you want the copyright notice to say "LGPL" instead of "GPL"?

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Yes. Since the sources are checked in already as LGPL (contrary to the manual, I now see), it wasn't obvious this was necessary. So should relocatable.[ch] be fixed?
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This is achieved by passing the option '--lgpl' to gnulib-tool. [1]

I already tried this, but it fails because a build-time module funclib.sh I use is GPLed. I didn't think that was a problem legally for the project, as it's not part of the built sources (it contains helper functions used by Gary Vaughan's bootstrap module).

So it looks as though the correct solution is using --lgpl, but it won't work for me. If I'm not doing something wrong by attempting to use funclib.sh under GPL to build the project which itself is under LGPL, then it seems that's a problem with gnulib.

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