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Re: Missing dependency on progname


From: Reuben Thomas
Subject: Re: Missing dependency on progname
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:06:09 +0100

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 02:41, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:

We do not want to put 'progname' under LGPL license, because 'progname' is
meant to be used in programs, not libraries, and for programs the GPL is
the right license.

That makes sense.

But things have changed since 2013: Gnulib modules that can reasonably be used
in libraries now depend on 'getprogname' instead of 'progname' [1].

Thanks for the pointer!

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