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Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:33:34 +0200 |
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> According to Paolo Bonzini on 8/27/2008 6:54 AM:
>>> Except that getndelim2 and memchr2 are GPL, while freadptr and freadseek
>>> are LGPL (I assume v3+). Would it be okay to change all four to LGPLv2+?
>>
>> I'm okay with memchr2 being LGPLv2+; it does little more than memchr,
>> which is a basic libc function. Since freadptr and freadseek pre-date the
>> licensing switch, they should also be okay. The real question boils down
>> to whether getndelim2 is okay as LGPLv2+, or whether it represents enough
>> of a GNU extension to keep it GPL.
>
> ... and whether reusing its code in getdelim would still allow to make
> getdelim LGPLv2+. Because if it does, the same argument ("it does
> little more than...") applies to getndelim2.
I agree. Will commit this shortly:
* modules/getndelim2 (License): Relicense to LGPLv2+.
diff --git a/modules/getndelim2 b/modules/getndelim2
index 51a63bf..daf4b5f 100644
--- a/modules/getndelim2
+++ b/modules/getndelim2
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Include:
"getndelim2.h"
License:
-GPL
+LGPLv2+
Maintainer:
all
- [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim, Eric Blake, 2008/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim, Eric Blake, 2008/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: getndelim2 license, Bruno Haible, 2008/08/28
- Re: getndelim2 license, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/08/29
- Re: getndelim2 license, Jim Meyering, 2008/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim, Simon Josefsson, 2008/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim, Simon Josefsson, 2008/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim, Simon Josefsson, 2008/08/27
- Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim, Bruno Haible, 2008/08/28
- Re: [PATCH] use unlocked io in getdelim, Simon Josefsson, 2008/08/28