On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 03:09:17PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 02:39:06PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
Following up on this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.libvirt/6338/focus=6349
This change removes all uses of ctype macros and ensures that no new ones will be added.
The other changes I mentioned will come later.
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I should mention that there is a prerequisite patch to add the c-ctype module and pull in gnulib-related updates:
From 105399f605ff7c4c7f5148f18ea08cb63c8c0411 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 13:59:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Prepare to use gnulib's c-type module.
Oops problem ! Assuming c-ctype licence is LGPL i'm all for it but I find
That's not a problem (and this is documented -- but to find it, you have to dig).
The authoritative source for the license is specified in the module-definition file, gnulib/modules/c-ctype. It is LGPLv2+.
Looks quite confusing. The .h file says this module is under Licence X and somewhere a text file says it's under a different Licence Y. My instinctive reaction (and I guess i'm not the only one) is to assume the licencing information in the source would be the one binding from a legal POV, but IANAL, so all i can say is that it looks weird.
Besides, our invocation of gnulib-tool (in bootstrap) requires that any module be compatible with LGPLv2+ via its --lgpl=2 option, so this is checked automatically. You may rest assured that any module I propose for addition has the right copyright. In addition, when gnulib-tool copies the files into gnulib, it rewrites the license to be what we require:
Okay, i assume there is no problem, changing licences when copying exceeds my limited understanding, but there is certainly a good and legally okay reason for that, but I'm fine to stay ignorant as long as you tell me it's okay :-) Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/