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Re: cloexec license
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: cloexec license |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:35:28 +0100 |
Eric Blake wrote:
> Jim, Bruno,
> Any objections to relicensing cloexec as LGPL? set_cloexec_flag is only a
> thin
> wrapper around fcntl, which currently isn't adding much content beyond a low
> level function that is present everywhere except mingw. dup_cloexec is a bit
> more complicated, and was borrowed from the GPL module pipe, but again, it is
> merely exposing features of the system in a convenient API rather than
> inventing new features. If we don't relicense, then rpl_fcntl and O_CLOEXEC
> support will have to be GPL, which seems weird, since open is currently LGPL.
Seems sensible. Fine by me.