Re: Request to relax the licenses of quotearg, quotearg-simple, xalloc, xalloc-die, xalloc-oversized to LGPLv2+

2012-10-17 Thread Paul Eggert
I dunno, quotearg is a pretty big chunk of code taken from a GPLed project, and it does far more than what is needed to run 'system'. It might be better to write a new module that does just what you want. It might replace the sh-quote module. P.S. Please note my email address is now .

Re: Request to relax the licenses of quotearg, quotearg-simple, xalloc, xalloc-die, xalloc-oversized to LGPLv2+

2012-10-17 Thread Paolo Bonzini
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 wo

Re: Request to relax the licenses of quotearg, quotearg-simple, xalloc, xalloc-die, xalloc-oversized to LGPLv2+

2012-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
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+ f

Request to relax the licenses of quotearg, quotearg-simple, xalloc, xalloc-die, xalloc-oversized to LGPLv2+

2012-10-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
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 quotear