-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Kern
Kern Sibbald wrote: > Yes, and in addition, after Josselin's email, I did a bit of research, and > for > at least one of the files that we use (fnmatch.c), the FSF license was > changed from GPL to LGPL sometime in 2004 the best I can tell. > Unfortunately, we are still using the old GPL'ed version rather than the > newer LGPL'ed version. > While it would be best to convert to the newer version, it is not so easy as > the we have made some modifications to the old one to support Win32 systems > (stupid difference of path separators, ...). > Question: for old GPL'ed versions of fnmatch.c and fnmatch.h that we are > using > copyrighted in 1997 by FSF, would it be possible to modify them to use the > LGPL as you are currently doing? > That would give me a bit of breathing room (i.e. no recoding for the moment). > > Long term, I am probably going to use your newer LGPLed version since it > supports UTF-8, but that will take some modifications and lots of testing. FSF would need to answer this question directly. FSF and FSFE are sister organisations but we are administratively separate. I will pass this question onward off-list. :) > However, one important issue to work through is Josselin's claim that due to > the wording in GPL v3, I could switch to it, and it would be OK to link > OpenSSL in as shared objects. I am discussing this with Brett Smith at the moment. Regards Shane - -- Shane Coughlan FTF Coordinator Free Software Foundation Europe Office: +41435000366 ext 408 / Mobile: +41792633406 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support Free Software > http://fsfe.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRpuLqNGa7CzA5hXyAQL84gP8DyjLbDbgKtoyXdvIukFnmOzgBjcs6EsF oQ3eLqo/mml21UfowSBjYWo6xFePogi+ILhfWfq3eDJ6bYEP+ilysQtgfeHXxxx1 sVbTSHfS+hOtIdnsiCZ6j2O10jYaBMEIedJKkakWHXCbaYwYzvZNGOfC9Nxle8Fz /8q6YlR2R0s= =6XPy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]