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Re: exit
From: |
Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
Re: exit |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:00:33 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> 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 | This module is obsolete.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).
Yes, good idea. Let's wait for Paul to confirm and then fix this in one
patch.
/Simon
- exit, Simon Josefsson, 2010/03/04
- Re: exit, Eric Blake, 2010/03/04
- Re: exit,
Simon Josefsson <=