On 08/17/10 23:17, Eric Blake wrote:

> libvirt is currently LGPLv2+

Can this be changed to LPGLv3+?  That'd solve the problem.

> Is it worth relaxing the license on the *printf-posix family of modules
> to LGPLv2+ from their current LGPLv3+, or is this too big of a request?

I dunno, at some point we should be encouraging people to switch
to LGPLv3+.

> since using umaxtostr penalizes 32-bit machines for converting to the
> 64-bit intermediary, maybe it's worth adding a size_t variant?

That would be fine.  The *tostr routines were mainly written
for two reasons.  First, for platforms that can't/couldn't portably
and reliably output wide integers.  Second, speed.

> What a shame that POSIX omitted an <inttypes.h> PRIu* for size_t.

We could add one in gnulib, no?


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