On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It seems that gnulib-tool installs files in build-aux like >>> "snippet/c++defs.h" that are under GPLv3+, even if the --lgpg=2 flag >>> is specified. If these headers are GPLv3+ shouldn't they be skipped in >>> that case? >> No, that sounds like it might be a bug in gnulib-tool for not re-writing >> the header license. Would you like to help investigate? ALL >> gnulib-installed files should have their headers rewritten to match the >> intersection of the module license and the requested license of the >> gnulib-tool invocation; and modules/snippet/c++defs says that it is >> indeed under the LGPLv2+ license. > I think that the attached patch correctly fixes the issue. It > separates build-aux/ files from build-aux/snippet files, and uses the > main library license for the latter. Hello, Is there any plan to apply this or any similar patch? As it is now, the --lgpl=2 flag of gnulib-tool installs GPLv3 header files in build-aux. regards, Nikos
