Matthew Booth wrote:
> I've just been trying to use getopt-gnu in a project, only to hit
> license confusion. The (LGPLv2+) project is already using a bunch of
> gnulib modules, which are all listed in a bootstrap file. Adding
> getopt-gnu to this list results in an incompatible license error. The
> module's license is given as 'LGPL'. The bootstrap script calls
> gnulib-tool with '--lgpl=2'.
>
> Firstly, could the license please be updated to 'LGPLv2+', which I
> believe is probably the intention.
>
> Secondly, the license headers of lib/getopt.c and lib/getopt1.c seem
> to be GPLv3, which doesn't sound right. Do they also need to be
> updated?
Hi Matt,
That sounds fine, since the pieces all come from glibc, and
the sole dependent module, getopt-posix is already lgplv2+.
I'll wait a little, in case someone else wants to chime in.
Here's the patch:
>From b65975545768b43ceedb45b307546f1ee6605132 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 18:48:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] getopt-gnu: relax license from LGPLv3+ to LGPLv2+
* modules/getopt-gnu (License): Relax to LGPLv2+, for augeas,
on request from Mattew Booth.
---
ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
modules/getopt-gnu | 2 +-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1d85cf7..82842e9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-03-02 Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
+
+ getopt-gnu: relax license from LGPLv3+ to LGPLv2+
+ * modules/getopt-gnu (License): Relax to LGPLv2+, for augeas,
+ on request from Matt Booth.
+
2011-03-01 Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
copy-file: ignore warning about chown's unused return value
diff --git a/modules/getopt-gnu b/modules/getopt-gnu
index 54bbe42..92b37dd 100644
--- a/modules/getopt-gnu
+++ b/modules/getopt-gnu
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Include:
<getopt.h>
License:
-LGPL
+LGPLv2+
Maintainer:
all, glibc
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