On 10/25/2012 07:52 AM, Thomas Martitz wrote: >> Are you using 'gnulib-tool --lgpl=2 --import poll' to get at the module? >> > > Hello, > > I didn't use that tool. Following my intuition I just browsed the source > code as normal, which gave me poll.c under GPLv2+[1].
Indeed - in gnulib, we prefer to list files under the most restrictive license, to make them easier to copy them verbatim into restrictive license tools; and recommend going through gnulib-tool if you need a looser license, which will validate that rewriting licenses as part of copying files into your project is acceptable. https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/gnulib.html#Copyright > If I understand this correctly gnulib-tool replaces the license header > to reflect the real license. Perhaps the header of the unprocessed > source should be updated. This has been asked before on this list, and the answer has always been that it is more work than worth the effort, and that gnulib-tool is the preferred way to use gnulib source code. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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