Re: [PATCH] readme-release: require the promoted modules

2012-06-05 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 5 juin 2012 à 12:12, Jim Meyering a écrit : > Good idea. This has burned even me ;-) > Please commit. EPERM.

Re: [PATCH] readme-release: require the promoted modules

2012-06-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Akim Demaille wrote: > I have been trying to follow README-release as a guide > for releasing Bison, unfortunately step after step I > discovered that I needed modules that were not requested > by Bison. It seems sane that if you want README-alpha, > you also want the tools it promotes. Good idea

[PATCH] readme-release: require the promoted modules

2012-06-05 Thread Akim Demaille
I have been trying to follow README-release as a guide for releasing Bison, unfortunately step after step I discovered that I needed modules that were not requested by Bison. It seems sane that if you want README-alpha, you also want the tools it promotes. 0001-readme-release-require-the-promot

Re: Licensing of dummy.c

2012-06-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 5 June 2012 08:44, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> I suppose you know that module is already LGPLv2+. > > I did not know that. LGPL is not mentioned in the file. This is a FAQ (the license section of each modules/ file indicates the actual license, not the original lib/* files

Re: Licensing of dummy.c

2012-06-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 5 June 2012 08:44, Jim Meyering wrote: > > I suppose you know that module is already LGPLv2+. I did not know that. LGPL is not mentioned in the file. > Your request makes me wonder: > If dummy's license is causing trouble, how can you use any > nontrivial part of gnulib? I can't, and I'm not

Re: Licensing of dummy.c

2012-06-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Reuben Thomas wrote: > Since this file is trivial, would it be possible to give it an > all-permissive license? Someone has just (helpfully!) pointed out that > it shouldn't be in a BSD-licensed project I maintain, where it gets > pulled in by bootstrap. Hi Reuben, I suppose you know that module