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Re: test modules and license


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: test modules and license
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:28:47 -0800
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Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> But I agree that it can be confusing.

True.

> The practical drawback would be that the --symlink option, in the
> coreutils situation, will copy more files and symlink less files.

That's a serious drawback, at least for the way I work.  When I
develop, I commonly edit the gnulib copies and expect coreutils to
track the changes.

Another possibility is to have two copies of the file in gnulib, one
GPL'ed and one LGPL'ed.  We could automatically generate one copy from
the other.  This would also help out those who copy files manually
(there are still some of those, as I understand it).

We could put the LGPL'ed versions into a subdirectory lib/lpgl, say.
That would be backward compatible.




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