Re: HAVE_STDBOOL_H, AC_HEADER_STDBOOL, and AM_STDBOOL_H

[Eric Blake]

On 02/01/2011 07:13 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> I can understand if you are building non-free software you would not
>> want to use gnulib due to license reasons, but you could still use
>> autoconf.
> Somewhat oversimplified, this applies to us.
> 
> RTEMS is an OS for embedded systems and is licensed under a "GPL with
> exceptions for static linkage".
> We choose to do so, because to users RTEMS presents itself as a set of
> static libraries, they statically link their application code against.
> 
> As we do not want to force our users to release their code, "pure
> GPL'ed" code is not applicable to us.

The gnulib stdbool module is LGPLv2+, which is about as flexible as you
can be.  Using gnulib's stdbool replacement does NOT require an
application to become GPL.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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