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Re: no license on some test modules
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Eric Blake |
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Re: no license on some test modules |
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Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:00:39 -0700 |
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According to Bruno Haible on 12/7/2007 4:18 AM:
>
> A fix could be to make func_import work a bit like func_create_testdir, but
> with a single configure file:
> - Put the configure tests for 'xalloc' into the normal configure. This is
> OK since the *.m4 files are all under a permissive license.
> - Put the source code for 'xalloc' into tests/ instead of lib/. This works
> without filename clashes since tests source files start with 'test-' by
> convention.
> - Emit rules into tests/Makefile.am to create a libtests.a, and link all
> tests with this library.
> So lib/libgnu.a will be LGPLed, but tests/libtests.a will be GPLed.
>
> Does that sound right?
That sounds okay to me - by separating the GPL prereqs of the tests into
their own directory and library, the tests can now be GPL without
polluting the LGPL nature of the normal library.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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- no license on some test modules, Jim Meyering, 2007/12/05
- Re: no license on some test modules, Bruno Haible, 2007/12/07
- Re: no license on some test modules, Bruno Haible, 2007/12/10
- Re: no license on some test modules, Jim Meyering, 2007/12/10
- Re: no license on some test modules, Eric Blake, 2007/12/10
- Re: no license on some test modules, Eric Blake, 2007/12/11
- Re: no license on some test modules, Jim Meyering, 2007/12/11
- Re: no license on some test modules, Eric Blake, 2007/12/11
- Re: no license on some test modules, Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/12/12
- Re: no license on some test modules, Eric Blake, 2007/12/12
- Re: no license on some test modules, Eric Blake, 2007/12/12