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Re: Fixing interlibrary deps.
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Jeff Bailey |
Subject: |
Re: Fixing interlibrary deps. |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Sep 2002 04:44:49 -0700 |
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The source in glibc has been modified to work outside of the library
(the seem to like to do clever things). I should resolve this
completely. I'll bring it up on the gnulib mailing list.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:29:00PM -0400, Sam Roberts wrote:
> Most of lib looks like it came from GNU libc, or could be replaced with
> code extracted from GNU libc. Could that be done? libc is still LGPLed,
> right? getline(), at least, should be available.
>
> To me, an LGPLed library with a configuration mechanism that is GPLed
> seems less than complete.
>
> But, since I don't have the time to write or find code to replace the GPLed
> stuff, we may not have any choice other than to use the existing lib/ code,
> and
> of course respect the licences the authors used.
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
> Quoteing address@hidden, on Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 02:01:25PM +0300:
> >
> > A correction to the above: mu_argp depends on getline.c and argcv.c, both
> > of which are under GPL and cannot be included to libmailbox. We'll
> > have to move mu_argp.c back to lib/. Opinions?
>
> --
> Sam Roberts <address@hidden> (Vivez sans temps mort!)
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