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Re: exit
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Eric Blake |
Subject: |
Re: exit |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:36:39 -0700 |
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According to Simon Josefsson on 3/4/2010 6:33 AM:
> Building all modules leads to this warning:
>
> gnulib-tool: warning: module obstack depends on a module with an incompatible
> license: exit
>
>
> Is the 'exit' module really useful, other than transition for old code
> when the exit module provided something? It was changed to this content
> back in 2007.
>
> How about adding this to the 'exit' module:
>
> ,----
> | Status:
> | obsolete
> |
> | Notice:
> | This module is obsolete. It will be removed on 2011-01-01. Use 'stdlib'.
> `----
>
> Second to that option, how about changing the license to 'unlimited'
> since the 'exit' module is just meta information?
How about both - add the obsoletion notice, but also change the license to
LGPLv2 (unlimited seems a bit much in this case, since it is not build tools).
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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- exit, Simon Josefsson, 2010/03/04