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Re: Incompatible module license.
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Incompatible module license. |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:50:28 +0100 |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Yoann Vandoorselaere on 12/17/2007 3:18 AM:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The glob module is licensed under LGPLv2+, and was previously compatible
>> with the module it depended on.
>>
>> I wanted to perform an update today, but there has been changes to the
>> glob module that make it depend on non LGPL modules:
>>
>> - openat
>
> Sounds like we need to split openat into two modules - an LGPL one that
> does the detection, and a GPL one that provides the replacement; then make
> glob depend on openat-detect instead of openat.
That sounds even better.