Il 17/10/2012 17:46, Eric Blake ha scritto: > On 10/17/2012 09:35 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> libguestfs (an LGPLv2+ library) would like to use the useful quotearg >> functions to ensure we can run system(3)-style external commands while >> safely quoting shell arguments. >> >> However this would require relaxation of the license to LGPLv2+ for >> at least the following modules [*]: >> >> quotearg >> quotearg-simple > > I'm definitely okay with quotearg-simple being relaxed, but I worry that > relaxing quotearg may be counter-productive to protecting value-added of > gpl code. On the other hand, it may be that the only reason quotearg is > gpl is because it uses xalloc, and fixing it to avoid xalloc would then > clear the way to make it usable from libraries.
I think error messages consistent with the GNU coding standards are quite important, so I think quotearg/quotearg-simple's code should be LGPL. >> xalloc >> xalloc-die >> xalloc-oversized > > Maybe xalloc-oversized can be LGPLv2+, but xalloc and xalloc-die must > not be. Library code must not call exit(), and xalloc-die exists solely > to call exit(). LGPL hasn't been the Library GPL for quite a while now... > The xalloc module should remain GPL, and we should > instead figure out how to break the dependency of quotearg wanting to > use xalloc. ... but I agree with this anyway. Paolo
