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Re: Licensing problem LGPLv3+ vs. GPLv2only conflict
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Andreas Metzler |
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Re: Licensing problem LGPLv3+ vs. GPLv2only conflict |
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Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:53:15 +0200 |
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On 2013-07-23 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 07/20/2013 12:30 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
[...]
>> Normally one would specify the licensing constraints when importing
>> Gnulib modules, with --lgpl=2 in that case.
> Hello Ludo,
> Unfortunately that cannot be practically be used. It would require
> splitting into two gnulibs, one for the src/ directory and one for the
> lib/ directory. That would mean two copies of the same files, and twice
> the configure time checks. Given the (extremely large) number of checks
> gnulib adds to configure, that doesn't seem like a reasonable solution.
How about doing a dummy import with --lgpl=2 for all modules used by
the library?
cu Andreas
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