Re: gnulib integration how to

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Paul Eggert's message of Wed Nov 16 03:10:40 -0500 2011:

> I agree with your comment about it needing a date and version info.

Added.  I'll maintain this going forward.

> Also, it'd be nice for it to have a "References" or "See also"
> section at the bottom, that points to the gnulib manual, the gnulib
> mailing list archive, and download instructions.

Will add.

> I just took a census and found the following license count
> for gnulib modules:
> 
>     775 LGPL
>     398 LGPLv2+
>     234 GPL
>      25 GPLed build tool
>      17 unlimited
>       4 public domain
> 
> so, although the comment about most being *GPL3 is correct, there's
> still a lot of LGPLv2+ code in there and some gnulib-using projects
> are LGPLv2 so I would reword the licensing section a bit to make it
> a bit less discouraging.

Ok, that sounds good to me.

> I looked for other similar pages, that the gnulib documentation
> could point to.  The OpenCSW page seemed by far the best.

Glad to hear it! :)

I'll bump this thread again after making the suggested changes.

Thanks
-Ben
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