Julien PUYDT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Eggert a écrit : >> Julien PUYDT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>Stepan Kasal a écrit : >>>>I suggest that you get the files from gnulib CVS on savannah. >>>Those are GPL and not LGPL ; >> No, they can be released under either the GPL or the LGPL. >> If you use gnulib-tool to obtain that source code, it turns the >> copyright notice into LGPL for you automatically. > Hmmm... gnulib-tool wants to install it in a project -- which I don't > want : I just need a posix regex library. Gnulib-tool doesn't seem to > permit to just get the sources.
I'll CC: this to bug-gnulib to see if the gnulib-tool experts can help out on here. > I must admit that I'm no licence guru, and wonder why those files > aren't just under the LGPL... after all the downgrading from GPL to > LGPL is even done automatically by a script ! "Historical reasons." Some projects don't use gnulib-tool even today, and these older projects typically want GPL. Coreutils is an example (and a source of a lot of the gnulib code). Arguably this should all be converted to do it the way that you suggest, but that'd take some work.... _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
