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Re: licence text as string?
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John Darrington |
Subject: |
Re: licence text as string? |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:53:58 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:59:09AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
Hi,
John Darrington wrote:
> Would it be possible to add a feature to the gpl-[23].0 modules which
> provides the text of the GPL as a const char * ?
>
> This would be useful for user interfaces which need to display the
> licence text
Why not reading the file at runtime? It's as simple as this:
Makefile.am:
pkgdata_DATA = COPYING
*.c:
license = read_file (PKGDATADIR "/COPYING", &length);
if (license == NULL)
license = "GPL";
This would be ok if the display system expects the '\n' characters.
But some systems expect a string and perform their own line wrapping.
In this case it would look messy.
J'
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