Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Friday 03 October 2008 20:23:27 Lukas Oboril wrote: >>> I'm not sure if it matters or not, but yesterday Stefan said that we need >>> to avoid using libintl. >> Well, I'm totally puzzled !!! Any reason for that ? > > My guess is that the issue is gettext (libintl) 0.17 is GPLv3-only, while > gettext 0.15 (and possibly 0.16) is GPLv2-only. We (KDE) can live with GPLv2 > only but we need to watch out; I've not got a complete picture of the > licenses > in our dependency tree, but you can't mix GPLv2 and GPLv3 without feeling > yucky.
Yup, this is basically licensing changes. There's no need to panic, and we don't really need to switch to static archives for libiconv/libintl. :-) --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman Sun Microsystems, Inc. Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM
