On Friday 18 March 2016 09:38:30 Paul Eggert wrote: > On 03/18/2016 09:08 AM, Pino Toscano wrote: > > progname is GPL 3+, which means it cannot be used in the main library > > (which is LGPL 2) without changing the license of the resulting work. > > I expect this is because it was intended to be used only by programs, > not by libraries, so GPL was appropriate. If we come up with something > that can also be used by libraries, LGPL would be appropriate.
Ironically, programs get away with it with a simple const char* declaration, while libraries and loadable modules are in a more complex situation. > > At least on FreeBSD, there is a getprogname() library function which > > provides what is needed, but cannot be used in a static initializer > > (while the "program_name" to provide must be like that). > > > > My idea would be something like the following: > > a) change all the program_name usages into call of some internal > > function, e.g. gl_get_program_name() > > How about if we use the BSD API instead? It looks reasonable and is > designed to be portable. On BSD our module would do nothing since BSD > already does what we want. That works for me too, both for license and API -- but should progname be rewritten (breaking users of it), or add a new getprogname module? Thanks, -- Pino Toscano
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