Re: lgpl compatible files archive?

[Simon Josefsson]

Patrice Dumas <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am currently packaging a library under the LGPL, so I cannot use the files
> of the gnulib that are under the GPL. Is there somewhere a project similar
> with the gnulib but with files with LGPL compatible licences?

I started Lesser GNULib <http://josefsson.org/lessergnulib/> for that
reason. I haven't worked on it much after I started it, though.  I
found it better to try and work to solve all the issues instead of
re-inventing the wheel.  It was possible to change GNULib in ways that
helped me.  I didn't even commit most of my half-finished modules that
I'm manually maintaining outside of the gnulib infrastructure in my
projects.  I still think either a Lesser GNULib project is needed, or
that gnulib modules could become parametrized, or that gnulib could
contain multiple implementations of the same interface (with different
characteristics, license-wise, thread-safety, malloc use, etc...).

I found it helped to attack the problem one module at a time,
carefully considering the details.  Exactly which modules do you need
which are under the GPL in gnulib today?