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| From: | Richard W.M. Jones |
| Subject: | Request to relax the licenses of quotearg, quotearg-simple, xalloc, xalloc-die, xalloc-oversized to LGPLv2+ |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:35:18 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) |
libguestfs (an LGPLv2+ library) would like to use the useful quotearg functions to ensure we can run system(3)-style external commands while safely quoting shell arguments. However this would require relaxation of the license to LGPLv2+ for at least the following modules [*]: quotearg quotearg-simple xalloc xalloc-die xalloc-oversized (1725 lines of code in total) The contributors to these modules appear to be: Bruno Haible Paul Eggert Jim Meyering Eric Blake Paolo Bonzini Joel E. Denny Akim Demaille Rich. [*] Is there a way to list the dependencies and licenses of a module? I constructed that list by examining the dependencies and licenses by hand, so I may have missed some. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org
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